Russia And The European Union

Author : Tuomas Forsberg,Hiski Haukkala
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137355355

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The European Union and Russia by Tuomas Forsberg,Hiski Haukkala Pdf

This important text provides readers with a systematic and comprehensive overview of the historic and ever-evolving relationship between Russia and the European Union, and on that basis discusses what the future of relations could look like. The EU's policy towards Russia can be regarded as one of the toughest tests of the credibility of its external relations, and in examining the dynamics of the relationship, this book poses essential questions about the EU's ability to sustain itself as a meaningful entity in world politics. Written by two experts in the field, it analyses the political and institutional development of EU-Russia relations from three perspectives: European studies, Russian studies and International Relations, including Foreign Policy Analysis. The relationship between the European Union and Russia is of considerable importance to both partners, but whilst there have been many moments of co-operation between the two, tensions have never been far from the surface and the conflict over Ukraine brought it to a historical nadir. Both have taken steps to strengthen their relationship, but diplomatic stagnation and the challenge of furthering common economic, political, social, and environmental objectives have proved increasingly testing to relations over time. This important text provides readers with a systematic and comprehensive overview of the historic and ever-evolving relationship between Russia and the European Union, suitable for students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in European Studies, Russian Studies and International Relations theory.

Author : Thomas Hoffmann,Andrey Makarychev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351398367

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Russia and the EU by Thomas Hoffmann,Andrey Makarychev Pdf

The annexation of Crimea in 2014 and Russia’s support for military insurgency in eastern Ukraine undermined two decades of cooperation between Russia and the EU leaving both sides in a situation of reciprocal economic sanctions and political alienation. What is left of previous positive experiences and mutually beneficial interactions between the two parties? And, what new communication practices and strategies might Russia and Europe use? Previously coherent and institutionalized spaces of communication and dialogue between Moscow and Brussels have fragmented into relations that, while certainly not cooperative, are also not necessarily adversarial. Exploring these spaces, contributors consider how this indeterminacy makes cooperation problematic, though not impossible, and examine the shrunken, yet still existent, expanse of interaction between Russia and the EU. Analysing to what extent Russian foreign policy philosophy is compatible with European ideas of democracy, and whether Russia might pragmatically profit from the liberal democratic order, the volume also focuses on the practical implementation of these discourses and conceptualizations as policy instruments. This book is an important resource for researchers in Russian and Soviet Politics, Eastern European Politics and the policy, politics and expansion of the European Union.

Author : Oksana Antonenko,Kathryn Pinnick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134242511

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Russia and the European Union by Oksana Antonenko,Kathryn Pinnick Pdf

The focus of this book is the implications of EU enlargement in May 2004 for EU-Russian relations. How should the EU and Russia develop their priorities as neighbours? What role could Russia's border regions play in shaping this policy? The book looks at the array of political, security, economic, and social concerns raised by the enlargement process. It incorporates different perspectives from existing and new EU member states, Russian scholars and politicians from Moscow and the northwestern regions of Russia.

Author : Cynthia A. Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Russia (Federation)
ISBN : UVA:X030201620

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Russia and the European Union by Cynthia A. Roberts Pdf

Russia and the West have avoided renewed confrontation despite many post Cold War crises, but illiberal trends in Russia rule out any prospect of developing a mutual agenda for closer integration. Russian engagement with the leading Euro-Atlantic institutions on a special, but still subordinate, nonmember basis remains a clever yet suboptimal substitute. Such relationships, as this monograph about Russia and the European Union explains, tend to produce shallow collaboration, symbolic summitry and costly standoffs. Closer cooperation is blocked by an ongoing dispute over terms, which is rooted in asymmetries in power, ambivalent preferences, uncertainty about the distributional costs and benefits of deeper engagement, and Russia's continued unwillingness or inability to lock-in the liberal domestic structures necessary to make credible commitments. Moscow's renewed self-confidence and geopolitical ambitions, bolstered by sustained economic growth and high energy prices, complicate the bargaining and further strain these special relationships which persist for lack of a realistic, superior alternative.

Author : T. Hopf
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230612587

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Russia's European Choice by T. Hopf Pdf

Russia has never been able to escape its relationship with Europe, or Europe with Russia. Geography and history have conspired to make them both neighbors and unavoidable factors in each other s daily lives. From the early 1700s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Europe and Moscow both relied on material power to balance against any threats emerging from East and West. More recently, Europe and the EU have adopted a different strategy: make Russia non-threatening by making it European, like "us." Meanwhile, Russia s resistance to Europe s assimilationist mission is increasingly robust, fuelled by energy exports to Europe and the world. Contributors to this volume wrestle with the question of whether the European project is feasible, desirable, or even ethical.

Author : K. Malfliet,L. Verpoest,E. Vinokurov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230210998

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The CIS, the EU and Russia by K. Malfliet,L. Verpoest,E. Vinokurov Pdf

This book focuses on the difficulties facing Russia, Ukraine and Belarus with regard to their integration into both the CIS and the encroaching EU. It analyzes the links between the integration mechanisms of the CIS and EU and the various state policies towards, and the elite interests in, the territory of the former Soviet Union.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. European Union Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0104012757

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The European Union and Russia by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. European Union Committee Pdf

The relationship between the European Union and Russia has been going through a difficult phase with disputes over energy supplies, foreign policy issues, and tension between Russia and individual Member States. The change of presidency in Russia provides an opportunity to take stock and to consider whether this deterioration can and should be reversed. Russian politicians emphasise the importance of the relationship. This report discusses how the relationship might be developed in practice. The report examines Russia as a European country, its recent history, and the current economic situation in Russia. It then considers the institutional framework for Russia-EU relations, including the Partnership and Co-operation Agreement. The Committee believes closer co-operation should be fostered in several areas of common interest: economic, freedom, security and justice, research and education and culture. Energy is an important subject: there are concerns about whether Russia can supply sufficient gas and oil to meet its current and foreseeable domestic demand and international commitments. The security of energy supply to the EU is vital. The Russian view of international security issues is also very different from that of the West, and developments in the near neighbourhood of Russia are a very sensitive geopolitical area. Russian support for Serbia is contrasted with their co-operation on Iran. The two sides work together usefully on the Middle East, terrorism, non-proliferation, and other issues. The EU should continue and strengthen its efforts to reach common ground with the Russians on such international issues, but should also speak out if the Russian government falls short of the standards it has formally accepted in a number of international agreements.

Author : Tom Casier,Joan DeBardeleben
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315444543

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EU-Russia Relations in Crisis by Tom Casier,Joan DeBardeleben Pdf

Relations between the EU and Russia have been traditionally and predominantly studied from a one-sided power perspective, in which interests and capabilities are taken for granted. This book presents a new approach to EU-Russia relations by focusing on the role of images and perceptions, which can be major obstacles to the enhancement of relations between both actors. By looking at how these images feature on both sides (EU and Russia), on different levels (bilateral, regional, multilateral) and in different policy fields (energy, minorities, regional integration, multilateral institutions), the book seeks to reintroduce a degree of sophistication into EU-Russia studies and provide a more complete overview of different dimensions of EU-Russia relations than any book has done to date. Taking social constructivist and transnational approaches, interests and power are not seen as objectively given, but as socially mediated and imbued by identities. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of European Foreign Policy, Eastern Partnership, Russian Foreign Policy and more broadly to European and EU Politics/Studies, Russian studies, and International Relations.

Author : Mai'a Cross,Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780472132287

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European-Russian Power Relations in Turbulent Times by Mai'a Cross,Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski Pdf

The Russia-Europe relationship is deteriorating, signaling the darkest era yet in security on the continent since the end of the Cold War. In addition, the growing influence of the Trump administration has destabilized the transatlantic security community, compelling Europe—especially the European Union—to rethink its relations with Russia. The volume editors’ primary goal is to illuminate the nature of the deteriorating security relationship between Europe and Russia, and the key implications for its future. While the book is timely, the editors and contributors also draw out long-term lessons from this era of diplomatic degeneration to show how increasing cooperation between two regions can devolve into rapidly escalating conflict. While it is possible that the relationship between Russia and Europe can ultimately be restored, it is also necessary to understand why it was undermined in the first place. The fact that these transformations occur under the backdrop of an uncertain transatlantic relationship makes this investigation all the more pressing. Each chapter in this volume addresses three dimensions of the problem: first, how and why the power status quo that had existed since the end of the Cold War has changed in recent years, as evidenced by Russia’s newly aggressive posturing; second, the extent to which the EU’s power has been enabled or constrained in light of Russia’s actions; and third, the risks entailed in Europe’s reactive power—that is, the tendency to act after-the-fact instead of proactively toward Russia—in light of the transatlantic divide under Trump.

Author : S. Prozorov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230625334

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Understanding Conflict Between Russia and the EU by S. Prozorov Pdf

This book the conflicting issues in EU-Russian relations and presents an innovative theory for the understanding of their emergence. Drawing on up-to-date research data, the author argues that conflicts in EU-Russian relations are generated by the clash of principles of state sovereignty and international integration.

Author : Jackie Gower,Graham Timmins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317985822

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The European Union, Russia and the Shared Neighbourhood by Jackie Gower,Graham Timmins Pdf

The conflict in South Ossetia in the summer of 2008 and the Ukrainian energy crisis in early 2009 served to highlight the tensions that continue to influence EU-Russia relations in regard to the region comprising the former republics of the Soviet Union or the ‘shared neighbourhood’. This book draws together research which examines the objectives of EU and Russian foreign policy and the complexities of the security challenges in this region. Although both actors have a shared interest in cooperating to create conditions of peace and stability, we have in recent years observed the development of growing competition between the EU and Russian foreign policy agendas. This book was based on a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.

Author : Anna-Sophie Maass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317372677

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EU-Russia Relations, 1999-2015 by Anna-Sophie Maass Pdf

This book traces the development of EU-Russia relations in recent years. It argues that a major factor influencing the relationship is the changing internal dynamics of both parties, in Russia’s case an increasingly authoritarian state, in the case of the EU an increasing coherence in its foreign policy as applied to former Soviet countries which Russia regarded as interference in its own sphere. The book considers the impact of conflicts in Kosovo, Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine, discusses the changing internal situation in both Russia and the EU, including the difficulties in overcoming fragmentation in EU policy-making, and concludes by assessing how the situation is likely to develop.

Author : Oliver Schmidtke,S. Yekelchyk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137101709

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Europe's Last Frontier? by Oliver Schmidtke,S. Yekelchyk Pdf

Three former western Soviet republics - Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova - now find themselves torn between the European Union and the increasingly assertive Russia. This volume examines the foreign and domestic policies of these states with an eye to the lasting legacy of Russian domination and the growing attraction of Europe.

Author : Cynthia A. Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1396850261

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RUSSIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE SOURCES AND LIMITS OF "SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS". by Cynthia A. Roberts Pdf

Author : Eiki Berg,Piret Ehin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317119104

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Identity and Foreign Policy by Eiki Berg,Piret Ehin Pdf

Baltic-Russian relations have been complicated and tense since the collapse of the USSR and the restoration of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian independence. Although Baltic accession to the European Union (EU) has created a new international context for interstate relations in the region, enlargement did not bring about the much hoped for improvement in Baltic-Russian relations. This case-study-rich volume examines links between identity, memory politics and foreign policy. It analyzes and explains developments in Baltic-Russian relations after both NATO and EU enlargement, focusing on the incompatibility of Baltic and Russian post-Soviet national identity constructions and the manifestations of this underlying antagonism in bilateral relations and on the broader European and international arena. Built on the constructivist perspective in international relations, this volume provides a coherent and illuminating account of the dynamics of Baltic-Russian relations after NATO and EU enlargement. Combining policy-relevant analysis with theoretical insights, it will meet the needs of academics and students of foreign policy, EU external relations and international relations more generally.