Russia, the EU, and the Eastern Partnership : Building Bridges or Digging Trenches?.
Even before the Ukrainian crisis, neither Russia nor the EU was content with their relationship. Despite economic interdependence, strategic partnership, official declarations of belonging culturally and historically to the same "European family" and in spite of Russia's stated intere...
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Ibidem Press,
2018
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; List of Acronyms; Foreword; Part I EU-Russia Relations: From Cooperation to Distrust; Chapter 1 A Clash of Two Worldviews?; Introduction; 1. A realist power in a post-modern world; 2. 'A strange animal' or a state-of-the-art power?; 3. An inevitable clash?; Conclusions; Chapter 2 EU-Russia Relations between the Cold War and Georgian War; Introduction; 1. EU-Russia relations during the Yeltsin presidency; 2. Vladimir Putin and 'Great Russia'; 2.1 The end of the 'Time of Troubles'; 2.2 The economization of Russian foreign policy; Conclusions.
- Chapter 3 Crossing the Red Line: The EU and Russia within the Contexts of the Georgian War and Ukraine CrisisIntroduction; 1. Rebuilding international credibility; 2. In search of modernisation without democratisation; 3. Contesting the EU; Conclusions; Part II A Partnership for a Common Neighbourhood; Chapter 4 From the 'New Neighbourhood Initiative' to the Eastern Partnership; Introduction; 1. The road towards the Eastern Partnership; 2. Divided or connected by the neighbourhood?; 3. Is the EaP a challenge for Russian foreign policy?; Conclusions.
- Chapter 5 Russia's Contribution to the Inception of the EaP1. The first signs of disobedience in the 'near abroad'; 2. Towards an assertive approach; 2.1. The 'energodiplomacy'; 2.2. From 'food wars' to deportations; 2.3. The secessionist card; 3. Estranging the 'near abroad', propelling the Eastern Partnership; 4. A coincidence of needs and interests; Conclusions; Chapter 6 Russia's Relations with the EaP Countries after 2009; Introduction; 1. Russia and the EaP countries; 1.1 Belarus; 1.2 The Republic of Moldova; 1.3 Georgia; 1.4 Armenia; 1.5 Azerbaijan; 1.6. Ukraine.
- 2. Sovereignty from the Russian Perspective3. Imperial ambitions?; Conclusions; References.
