Challenges of Globalization and Russian Public Opinion

Abstract

While globalization, in the opinion of Ulrich Beck, announces to the world "that politics has broken out from the categorical framework of the nation-state," Russian society is only beginning to adjust to the political space of a nation-state that is emerging from the ruins of empire. This rather eclectic juxtaposition of transnational, nation-state, and imperial principles in developing political consciousness can be clearly seen in society's response to some of the challenges posed by dynamic Modernity.