Abstract
The article researches into Russia's concept of comprehensive sovereignty that is a cornerstone of the official state paradigm. Sovereignty is analysed in its internal as well as external model, both synchronically and diachronically.
The concept is interconnected with national security expanding to different realms. Sovereignty-based securitisation tendencies are inquired into through methods of discursive analysis based upon constructivist assumptions.
Following these, the present study puts emphasis on conceptual constructions and discursive practices significantly affecting individual perceptions, interpretation and Weltanschauung of political leadership as a whole, thereby shaping behaviour, strategies and policies of individual actors concerned. The analysis comparatively uncovers an affinity between concepts and discursive practices of the actors included in the research - Russia, the United States, China, and the European Union.
It manifests itself in the concepts of comprehensive sovereignty, America First, dual circulation, and strategic autonomy respectively. These strategies are inquired into in relation to the transformation of the global order from US-led hegemonism towards polycentrism.
The author draws attention to the interactions within the "quadrilateral" consisting of Russia, China, the EU and the US in order to demonstrate the emergence and dynamics of autonomisation or regionalisation, which is to be seen as a dialectical moment in the globalisation process moving towards glocalisation and pragmatic polycentrism. The author concludes that the EU's strategic autonomy poses a positive feature requiring, however, the abandonment of Euro-Atlanticism, which thwarts a restructuring of the Eurasian macroregion in general, and a settlement of the Russia-Europe relations in particular.