Germany Russia And The Rise Of Geo Economics

Author : Stephen F. Szabo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472596345

Get Book

Germany, Russia, and the Rise of Geo-Economics by Stephen F. Szabo Pdf

Having emerged from the end of the Cold War as a unified country, Germany has quickly become the second largest exporter in the world. Its economic might has made it the center of the Eurozone and the pivotal power of Europe. Like other geo-economic powers, Germany's foreign policy is characterized by a definition of the national interest in economic terms and the elevation of economic interests over non-economic values such as human rights or democracy promotion. This strategic paradigm is evident in German's relationship with China, the Gulf States and Europe, but it is most important in regard to its evolving policies towards Russia. In this book, Stephen F. Szabo provides a description and analysis of German policy towards Russia, revealing how unified Germany is finding its global role in which its interests do not always coincide with the United States or its European partners. He explores the role of German business and finance in the shaping of foreign policy and investigates how Germany's Russia policy effects its broader foreign policy in the region and at how it is perceived by key outside players such as the United States, Poland and the EU. With reference to public, opinion, the media and think tanks Szabo reveals how Germans perceive Russians, and he uncovers the ways in which its dealings with Russia affect Germany in terms of the importing of corruption and crime. Drawing on interviews with key opinion-shapers, business and financial players and policy makers and on a wide variety of public opinion surveys, media reports and archival sources, his will be a key resource for all those wishing to understand the new geo-economic balance of Europe.

Author : Glenn Diesen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351815031

Get Book

Russia's Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia by Glenn Diesen Pdf

Moscow has progressively replaced geopolitics with geoeconomics as power is recognised to derive from the state’s ability to establish a privileged position in strategic markets and transportation corridors. The objective is to bridge the vast Eurasian continent to reposition Russia from the periphery of Europe and Asia to the centre of a new constellation. Moscow’s ‘Greater Europe’ ambition of the previous decades produced a failed Western-centric foreign policy culminating in excessive dependence on the West. Instead of constructing Gorbachev’s ‘Common European Home’, the ‘leaning-to-one-side’ approach deprived Russia of the market value and leverage needed to negotiate a more favourable and inclusive Europe. Eurasian integration offers Russia the opportunity to address this ‘overreliance’ on the West by using the Russia’s position as a Eurasian state to advance its influence in Europe. Offering an account steeped in Russian economic statecraft and power politics, this book offers a rare glimpse into the dominant narratives of Russian strategic culture. It explains how the country’s outlook adjusts to the ongoing realignment towards Asia while engaging in a parallel assessment of Russia’s interactions with other significant actors. The author offers discussion both on Russian responses and adaptations to the current power transition and the ways in which the economic initiatives promoted by Moscow in its project for a ‘Greater Eurasia’ reflect the entrepreneurial foreign policy strategy of the country.

Author : Stephen F. Szabo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472596338

Get Book

Germany, Russia, and the Rise of Geo-Economics by Stephen F. Szabo Pdf

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Having emerged from the end of the Cold War as a unified country, Germany has quickly become the second largest exporter in the world. Its economic might has made it the center of the Eurozone and the pivotal power of Europe. Like other geo-economic powers, Germany's foreign policy is characterized by a definition of the national interest in economic terms and the elevation of economic interests over non-economic values such as human rights or democracy promotion. This strategic paradigm is evident in German's relationship with China, the Gulf States and Europe, but it is most important in regard to its evolving policies towards Russia. In this book, Stephen F. Szabo provides a description and analysis of German policy towards Russia, revealing how unified Germany is finding its global role in which its interests do not always coincide with the United States or its European partners. He explores the role of German business and finance in the shaping of foreign policy and investigates how Germany's Russia policy effects its broader foreign policy in the region and at how it is perceived by key outside players such as the United States, Poland and the EU. With reference to public, opinion, the media and think tanks Szabo reveals how Germans perceive Russians, and he uncovers the ways in which its dealings with Russia affect Germany in terms of the importing of corruption and crime. Drawing on interviews with key opinion-shapers, business and financial players and policy makers and on a wide variety of public opinion surveys, media reports and archival sources, his will be a key resource for all those wishing to understand the new geo-economic balance of Europe.

Author : Mikael Wigell,Sören Scholvin,Mika Aaltola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351172264

Get Book

Geo-economics and Power Politics in the 21st Century by Mikael Wigell,Sören Scholvin,Mika Aaltola Pdf

Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book investigates the new power politics and argues that the changing structural features of the contemporary international system are recasting the strategic imperatives of foreign policy practice. States increasingly practice power politics by economic means. Whether it is about Iran’s nuclear programme or Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Western states prefer economic sanctions to military force. Most rising powers have also become cunning agents of economic statecraft. China, for instance, is using finance, investment and trade as means to gain strategic influence and embed its global rise. Yet the way states use economic power to pursue strategic aims remains an understudied topic in International Political Economy and International Relations. The contributions to this volume assess geo-economics as a form of power politics. They show how power and security are no longer simply coupled to the physical control of territory by military means, but also to commanding and manipulating the economic binds that are decisive in today’s globalised and highly interconnected world. Indeed, as the volume shows, the ability to wield economic power forms an essential means in the foreign policies of major powers. In so doing, the book challenges simplistic accounts of a return to traditional, military-driven geopolitics, while not succumbing to any unfounded idealism based on the supposedly stabilising effects of interdependence on international relations. As such, it advances our understanding of geo-economics as a strategic practice and as an innovative and timely analytical approach. This book will be of much interest to students of security studies, international political economy, foreign policy and International Relations in general.

Author : Mark Leonard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 1910118559

Get Book

Connectivity Wars by Mark Leonard Pdf

Author : Glenn Diesen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538161777

Get Book

Europe as the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia by Glenn Diesen Pdf

Will the increased economic connectivity across the Eurasian supercontinent transform Europe into the western peninsula of Greater Eurasia? The unipolar era entailed the US organising the two other major economic regions of the world, Europe and Asia, under US leadership. The rise of “the rest”, primarily Asia with China at the centre, has ended the unipolar era and even 500-years of Western dominance. China and Russia are leading efforts to integrate Europe and Asia into one large region. The Greater Eurasian region is constructed with three categories of economic connectivity – strategic industries built on new and disruptive technologies; physical connectivity with bimodal transportation corridors; and financial connectivity with new development banks, trading currencies and payments systems. China strives for geoeconomic leadership by replacing the US leadership position, while Russia endeavours to reposition itself from the dual periphery of Europe and Asia to the centre of a grand Eurasian geoeconomic constellation. Europe, positioned between the trans-Atlantic region and Greater Eurasia, has to adapt to the new international distribution of power to preserve its strategic autonomy.

Author : Christian Pfeiffer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000992564

Get Book

Geoeconomics in International Relations by Christian Pfeiffer Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the concept of geoeconomics in International Relations (IR). It offers an accessible overview of the most important approaches, including their history, means and ends, methodology, ideological underpinnings, normative aspects, and practical relevance. Exploring the forgotten history of geoeconomics, and revealing its different meanings and usages over time, the author clearly differentiates geoeconomics from geopolitics on a conceptual level. This thorough examination of contemporary conceptions identifies shortcomings in the current understanding of geoeconomics and proposes a reconceptualization of the concept within a neoliberal framework, increasing its empirical usefulness and analytical value. By contrasting neoliberal geoeconomics with neorealist geoeconomics, the book highlights the normative implications of both approaches, providing policy analysts and makers with valuable insights into the topic. This volume will be an important reference guide for understanding the concept of geoeconomics and a must-read for students and researchers of international relations, international political economy, economics, and political science, as well as professionals, such as policymakers and politicians.

Author : Robert D. Blackwill,Jennifer M. Harris
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674545984

Get Book

War by Other Means by Robert D. Blackwill,Jennifer M. Harris Pdf

Nations carry out geopolitical combat through economic means. Yet America often reaches for the gun over the purse to advance its interests abroad. Robert Blackwill and Jennifer Harris show that if U.S. policies are left uncorrected, the price in blood and treasure will only grow. Geoeconomic warfare requires a new vision of U.S. statecraft.

Author : Glenn Diesen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351815048

Get Book

Russia's Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia by Glenn Diesen Pdf

9 Europe at the periphery of Greater Eurasia -- The geoeconomic ascendance of the EU -- The EU's geoeconomic decline -- The failing geoeconomics of wider Europe -- EU bargaining power in Greater Eurasia -- 10 Conclusion: Towards a new Russian grand strategy -- Bibliography -- Index.

Author : Thane Gustafson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674987951

Get Book

The Bridge by Thane Gustafson Pdf

Europe and Russia are pushing against each other in a contest of economic doctrines and political ambitions, seemingly erasing the vision of cooperation that emerged from the end of the Cold War. Thane Gustafson argues that natural gas serves as a bridge over troubled geopolitical waters, uniting the region through common economic interests.

Author : Sven Bernhard Gareis,Matthew Rhodes
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847412106

Get Book

Germany’s New Partners by Sven Bernhard Gareis,Matthew Rhodes Pdf

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis Germany became Europe’s most influential nation state. This book aims to provide a comparative assessment of how this is reflected in the country’s bilateral security relationships with key global and regional partners. Prepared by an international team of scholars, it offers unique, in-depth perspectives on the ways these evolving interactions affect the prospects for addressing recent and emerging security challenges.

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412825989

Get Book

Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution by Thorstein Veblen Pdf

Author : Angela Stent
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455533015

Get Book

Putin's World by Angela Stent Pdf

In this revised version that includes an exclusive new chapter on the Russia-Ukraine war, renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent examines how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world—and increased Russia's status on the global stage. How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Or has Russia stepped into a vacuum created by the West's distraction with its own domestic problems and US ambivalence about whether it still wants to act as a superpower? Putin's World examines the country's turbulent past, how it has influenced Putin, the Russians' understanding of their position on the global stage and their future ambitions—and their conviction that the West has tried to deny them a seat at the table of great powers since the USSR collapsed. This book looks at Russia's key relationships—its downward spiral with the United States, Europe, and NATO; its ties to China, Japan, the Middle East; and with its neighbors, particularly the fraught relationship with Ukraine. Putin's World will help Americans understand how and why the post-Cold War era has given way to a new, more dangerous world, one in which Russia poses a challenge to the United States in every corner of the globe—and one in which Russia has become a toxic and divisive subject in US politics.

Author : Simon Bulmer,William E. Paterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350311565

Get Book

Germany and the European Union by Simon Bulmer,William E. Paterson Pdf

Winner of the UACES Best Book Prize 2020 The jury commented 'It is impossible to study or understand European integration without understanding Germany's role and place in this. This book is therefore a must-read'. This new textbook offers a path-breaking interpretation of the role of the European Union's most important member state: Germany. Analyzing Germany's domestic politics, European policy, relations with partners, and the resultant expressions of power within the EU, the text addresses such key questions as whether Germany is becoming Europe's hegemon, and if Berlin's European policy is being constrained by its internal politics. The authors – both leading scholars in the field – situate these questions in their historical context and bring the subject up to date by considering the centrality of Germany to the liberal order of the EU over the last turbulent decade in relation to events including the Eurozone crisis and the 2017 German federal election. This is the first comprehensive and accessible guide to a fascinating relationship that considers both the German impact on the EU and the EU's impact on Germany. This book is the ideal companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students who are studying the European Union or German Politics from the perspectives of disciplines as wide ranging as Politics, European Union Studies, Area Studies, Economics, Business and History. It is also an essential resource for all those studying or practicing EU policy-making and communication.

Author : James Mavor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Russia
ISBN : UOM:39015005106623

Get Book

An Economic History of Russia by James Mavor Pdf