A “Good” Samaritan? The Geopolitics of Russia’s Covid-19 Assistance

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Title

A “Good” Samaritan? The Geopolitics of Russia’s Covid-19 Assistance

Subject

covid-19 aid
Russia

Description

Between March and December of 2020, more than three dozen states received various types of COVID-19 assistance from Moscow. The Russian government emphasized a humanitarian character of what has become the largest package of emergency aid since Russia’s independence. The Western governments and commentators cautioned that Moscow had strategic and nefarious motives in choosing the recipients of its coronavirus aid. This study theorizes humanitarian aid allocations by authoritarian states and tests theoretical expectations using novel data on Russia’s COVID-19 aid allocations. Far from being driven by humanitarian concerns, Russia has used humanitarian assistance for projecting power on the global stage and supporting diverse political objectives. Moscow’s use of humanitarian aid for geopolitical benefits has not been a critical disruptor in the humanitarian system by itself. However, jointly with other instruments of foreign policy, Russia’s approaches to humanitarianism can be detrimental to the future of the international humanitarian system.

Creator

Omelicheva, Mariya

Source

Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies; Vol. 16 No. 1 (2023): Responses to Covid-19 Pandemic Policies ; 1-28
2562-8429
10.22215/cjers.v16i1

Publisher

Centre for European Studies, Carleton University

Date

2023-02-21

Rights

Copyright (c) 2023 Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article

Identifier

Citation

Mariya Omelicheva, A “Good” Samaritan? The Geopolitics of Russia’s Covid-19 Assistance, Centre for European Studies, Carleton University, 2023, accessed November 21, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/2817

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