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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">imi</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Международная аналитика</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Journal of International Analytics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2587-8476</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2541-9633</issn><publisher><publisher-name>MGIMO University</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.46272/2587-8476-2022-13-4-111-128</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">imi-456</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ОБЗОРНЫЕ СТАТЬИ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>RESEARCH ESSAY</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Российская военная операция  в Сирии и дискурс многополярности</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>The Syrian War in Russia’s Intensifying Discourse Against the Unipolar World</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Мацузато</surname><given-names>К.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Matsuzato</surname><given-names>K.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Кимитака Мацузато, PhD, почетный профессор факультета политологии Московского государственного университета имени М.В. Ломоносова и Шанхайского университета международных исследований, профессор юридического факультета </p><p>7-3-1, Хонго, Бунке, Токио, 113-0033</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Kimitaka Matsuzato, PhD. Honorary professor of the Political Science Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University and Shanghai International Studies University. Professor at the Graduate School for Law and Politics</p><p>7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku , Tokyo, 113-0033</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">kim@j.u-tokyo.ac.jp</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru">Московский государственный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова; Шанхайский университет международных исследований; Токийский университет<country>Япония</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en">Lomonosov Moscow State University; Shanghai International Studies University; University of Tokyo<country>Japan</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2022</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>13</day><month>01</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>13</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>111</fpage><lpage>128</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Мацузато К., 2022</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Мацузато К.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Matsuzato K.</copyright-holder><license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.interanalytics.org/jour/article/view/456">https://www.interanalytics.org/jour/article/view/456</self-uri><abstract><p>В данном эссе рассматриваются пять причин военного участия России в сирийском конфликте, которые полагаются в исследовательской и экспертной литературе как первопричины российской военной операции: борьба с терроризмом, сопротивление однополярности, внутренний популизм, преодоление изоляции России после начала Украинского кризиса и защита правительства Асада. Делается вывод, что борьба с терроризмом и защита многополярности стали релевантными причинами, способствующими началу сирийской военной операции. Сформированный в российском истеблишменте образ многополярности, возникающей ввиду упадка США, также подтверждает, что российская операция в Сирии психологически подготовила Россию к специальной военной операции на Украине. В случае с Сирией (2015) упадок США был воспринят как закономерное следствие плачевных результатов военных операций под руководством США в регионе, которые лишь подстегнули исламский радикализм, создав экзистенциальную угрозу для России. В случае Украины (2022) США также считались державой, находящейся в упадке и попытавшейся использовать Украину в качестве плацдарма для военной агрессии против России. Данное исследование является результатом экспертных интервью, проведенных в Москве в марте 2020 года.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This essay examines five possible reasons for Russia’s military involvement in the Syrian War. These reasons under consideration are an anti-terror policy, resistance to the unipolarity, domestic populism, overcoming Russia’s isolation after Crimea crisis, and defence of the B. Assad government. I conclude that only the anti-terror and anti-unipolar world motivations were relevant and merged into a single cognitive framework that is prone to launching Syrian military operation.</p><p>Other factors, such as a paradigmatic shift of the image of the post-unipolar world, as well as overconfidence in air force and artillery, also confirm that the Syrian War cognitively prepared Russia for its future military operation in Ukraine. Russian policymakers became convinced that the unipolar world was coming to an end. In the case of Syria (2015), the ill-fated US-led anti-terror operations intensified Islamic terrorism, which created an existential threat for Russia. In the case of Ukraine (2022), the United States, whose grip on world hegemony they believed was on the decline, was trying to use Ukraine as a bridgehead for military aggression against Russia. This study is a result of an extensive survey of the relevant literature and my own expert interviews conducted in Moscow in March 2020.</p><p> </p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Война в Сирии</kwd><kwd>однополярный мир</kwd><kwd>Арабская весна</kwd><kwd>радикальный исламизм</kwd><kwd>США</kwd><kwd>Путин</kwd><kwd>Обама</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Syrian War</kwd><kwd>unipolar world</kwd><kwd>Arab Spring</kwd><kwd>radical Islamism</kwd><kwd>Russia</kwd><kwd>the United States</kwd><kwd>Putin</kwd><kwd>Obama</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Васильев, А. От Ленина до Путина: Россия на Ближнем и Среднем Востоке. – М.: Центрполиграф, 2018.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Vasiliev, Alexey. Russia’s Middle East Policy: From Lenin to Putin. 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