Many policy and academic debates focus on the extent to which Russia is a revisionist power challenging the ‘liberal world order’. However, there is little agreement on the primary motives explaining the behaviour of Russia, some pointing to her unsatisfied great power ambitions and neo-imperial ideologies, and others to genuine security concerns. Adjudicating those claims is important because of their policy implications for engagement and/or deterrence towards Russia. This article contributes to this debate through a theoretical contribution to practice-based approaches to International Relations. Using De Certeau’s understanding of practices, it analyses Russian diplomatic practices in multilateral security organisations and illustrates how this helps infer foreign policy motives, contrary to the field-specific relationalism of Bourdieu-inspired practice approaches. Empirically, it builds on 126 interviews and participant observation in three multilateral security organisations (the United Nations, the NATO–Russia Council and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe). The article shows that at least since 2014, Russian diplomats in the three organisations consistently defend policies and use narratives that reveal more interest in status recognition, sometimes at the expense of security concerns.

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如何挑战国际秩序：多边安全组织中的俄罗斯外交实践

许多政策和学术辩论都围绕着俄罗斯是一个挑战“自由世界秩序”的修正主义大国。但是，在解释俄罗斯行为的主要动机上并没有达成共识，有人指出了俄罗斯不满足的大国野心和新帝国主义的意识形态，而其他人则表示了真正的安全关切。对这些主张进行裁决很重要，因为它们对与俄罗斯交战和/或威慑具有政策影响。本文通过对基于实践的国际关系方法的理论贡献，为这场辩论做出了贡献。利用De Certeau对实践的理解，它分析了多边安全组织中的俄罗斯外交实践，并说明了这如何有助于推断外交政策动机，与布迪厄启发式实践方法的特定领域关系主义相反。根据经验，它建立在三个多边安全组织（联合国，北约-俄罗斯理事会和欧洲安全与合作组织）的126次采访和参与者观察的基础上。文章显示，至少自2014年以来，这三个组织中的俄罗斯外交官一直为政策辩护，并使用叙事表达出更多的身份认同感，有时是出于安全考虑。