ABSTRACT
In the existing literature on biopolitics, war is discussed in connection with “the emergence of fascist states and societies in which the power over life and death, adjudicated on explicitly racial criteria, is disseminated widely“ (Reid 2006, 148–49). According to Foucault, this can lead to a state of affairs “which effectively means doing away with the people next door” (Foucault 2003 quoted in Reid 2006, 149). Russia illustrates the validity of this argument by intertwining biopolitical concerns about physical protection with the “biopolitical production of fear” as a precondition for articulating Russia’s international subjectivity (Makarychev and Yatsyk 2017a). The concept of the “Russian world” in its different versions is a good example of this assumption.
