As the world moves away from the West-centered international system, IR scholars are increasingly turning their attention to substance and formation of national values. Using the case of Russia, we show how distinct schools of IR theory and foreign policy dominant in the country have come to recognize the importance of national values as a lens through which to assess the country's means and goals of development. Each in its way, these schools—Civilizationists, Statists, and Westernizers—have prioritized “the national” in the country's future. We explain Russia's turn to the national by stressing the country's ontological insecurity, the role of the Russian state, and Western actions that contribute to creating and exacerbating the conditions of ontological insecurity. The case of Russia has important implications for understanding the role of national values in the formation of foreign policy and IR theory.

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构建民族价值观：俄罗斯国际关系理论和外交政策的民族特色转向

随着世界远离以西方为中心的国际体系，国际关系学者越来越关注国家价值观的实质和形成。以俄罗斯为例，我们展示了在该国占主导地位的不同国际关系理论和外交政策流派如何认识到国家价值观作为评估国家发展手段和目标的视角的重要性。这些学派——文明主义者、国家主义者和西化主义者——都以自己的方式，在国家的未来中优先考虑“民族”。我们通过强调国家的本体论不安全、俄罗斯国家的作用以及有助于创造和加剧本体论不安全条件的西方行动来解释俄罗斯转向国家。