| Description |
1 online resource (163 pages) |
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Post-Soviet Politics |
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Post-Soviet politics
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; 1. 'There are more important things than where the border runs': the other side of George Kennan's containment theory; A tiny flame of hope; Greatness and power; Princes and masters; Conclusion; Notes; 2. The crisis of spheres of influence in the EU-Russia relationship; The concept of an international relationship; The constitution and tension of Common Spaces; The relative crisis of spheres of influence; Conclusion; Notes |
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3. Borderline strategies: Calibrated territorial expansionism in the game theory searchlightInteractive territorial value; Exploiting collective inaction; Controlled borderlessness; Micro-case demonstrations; Countering calibrated expansionism; Notes; 4. From'colony' to 'failing state'?: Ukrainian sovereignty in the gaze of Russian foreign policy discourses; Sovereignty: 'problematic' or 'written?'; Newly independent Ukraine and Russia: the organization of post-Soviet hypocrisy; Ukraine: a European 'colony' or 'mistress' of the EU?; Constructing a 'failed state'; Notes |
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5. Reconsidering western concepts of the Ukrainian conflict: the rise to prominence of Russia's 'soft force' policyAsymmetric warfare: explaining the Ukrainian events?; The rise of Russian soft force?; The Ukrainian conflict and Russian soft force?; The misinterpretation of history; Conclusion: so what is soft force?; Notes; 6. Rising powers in the contemporary world: sources of sustainability; What is "rising" about rising powers?; Future trajectories: sources of sustainability; The European Union: sustainable rising of "normative power"?; Russia: rising revisionism |
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When rising powers meet: the EU and RussiaConclusion; Notes; 7. Governmentality beyond the West: (post)political machineries in Ukraine and Russia; Conceptualizing governmentality: current issues; Policies of subnational actors in the Euro 2012 and the Universiade 2013: good cop, bad cop; In residuo: Western governance and spill-over effects; Conclusion; Notes; 8. Managing national ressentiment: morality politics in Putin's Russia; Vladimir Putin: the unlikely moral hero of Russia; Moral frames and political action; Gde Moi Golos, Volshebnik? Electoral fraud as theft |
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Political and social basis of the new politics of morality"The sleep of reason produces monsters": on the executors, the inquisitors and vigilantes; In lieu of conclusion; Notes; 9. Stabilizing dispersed identities, or why politics defines EU-Russia disconnections; Cultural semiotics of boundary/border-(un)making; Temporal boundary (un)making: Russian and European experiences; The cultural semiotics of political divides; Borderlands and neighbourhoods: places in-between; Conclusion; Notes; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World politics -- 21st century.
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International relations.
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Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014- -- Influence
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international relations.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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International relations
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World politics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yatsyk, Alexandra
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| ISBN |
9781315457314 |
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1315457318 |
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