Eurasian Integration and the Russian World
Eurasian Integration and the Russian World

Author: Aliaksei Kazharski

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2019-04-10

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9633862868

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume examines Russian discourses of regionalism as a source of identity construction practices for the country's political and intellectual establishment. The overall purpose of the monograph is to demonstrate that, contrary to some assumptions, the transition trajectory of post-Soviet Russia has not been towards a liberal democratic nation state that is set to emulate Western political and normative standards. Instead, its foreign policy discourses have been constructing Russia as a supranational community which transcends Russia's current legally established borders. The study undertakes a systematic and comprehensive survey of Russian official (authorities) and semi-official (establishment affiliated think tanks) discourse for a period of seven years between 2007 and 2013. This exercise demonstrates how Russia is being constructed as a supranational entity through its discourses of cultural and economic regionalism. These discourses associate closely with the political project of Eurasian economic integration and the "Russian world" and "Russian civilization" doctrines. Both ideologies, the geoeconomic and culturalist, have gained prominence in the post-Crimean environment. The analysis tracks down how these identitary concepts crystallized in Russia's foreign policies discourses beginning from Vladimir Putin's second term in power.

Russian Regions and Regionalism
Russian Regions and Regionalism

Author: Anne Aldis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-08-29

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1135786674

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The emergence of large regions within Russia as centres of gravity for political and international power, and the changing relationship between these emerging regions and the centre are critically important factors currently at work within Russia. This book examines the whole question of Russian regions and regionalism. It considers important themes related to regionalism, including demography, security, military themes and international relations, and looks at a wide range of particular regions as case studies. It discusses the extent to which regions have succeeded in establishing themselves as centres of power, and assesses the degree to which President Putin is succeeding in incorporating regions into a hierarchy of power in which the primacy of the centre is retained.

Regionalism without Regions
Regionalism without Regions

Author: Ulrich Schmid

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2019-08-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789637326639

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This collective volume shows how Ukraine can best be understood through its regions and how the regions must be considered against the background of the nation. The overarching objective of the book is to challenge the dominance of the nation-state paradigm in the analyses of Ukraine by illustrating the interrelationship between national and regional dynamics of change. The authors—historians, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, literary critics and linguists from Ukraine, Poland, Switzerland, Germany and the USA—explicitly go beyond the perspective of an entity defined by traditional political borders and cultural, economic, historical or religious stereotypes. The research project that led to the composition of the book combined quantitative (statistical surveys conducted across Ukraine) and qualitative (in-depth interviews and focus-group discussion) methods. The authors came to the conclusion that regionalism as a defining phenomenon of Ukraine is more prominent than the regions themselves. This approach regards Ukraine as a construct in flux where different discourses intersect, concur and eventually merge through the lenses of various disciplines and methodologies.

The Decline of Regionalism in Putin's Russia
The Decline of Regionalism in Putin's Russia

Author: J. Paul Goode

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-05-11

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1136720731

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book reassesses the process whereby after 2000 Putin reversed the process by which in the 1990s power had shifted from Moscow to the regions. It focuses on the dynamics of regional boundaries: juridical boundaries, which defined a region's territorial extent and thereby its resources; institutional boundaries that sustained regional differences; and cultural boundaries that defined the ethnic or technocratic principles on which a region could claim legitimate existence.

Revisiting Regionalism and the Contemporary World Order
Revisiting Regionalism and the Contemporary World Order

Author: Élise Féron

Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich

Published: 2019-10-28

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 3847414976

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The book critically analyzes the ongoing changes in the regional, intra-regional, and global dynamics of cooperation, from a multi-disciplinary and pluralist perspective. It is based on the insight that in a post-hegemonic world the formation of regions and the process of globalization can be largely disconnected from the orbit of the US, and that a plurality of power and worldviews has replaced US hegemony. In spite of these changes, most existing analyses of current changes in the world order still rely upon Western-centered approaches, and Westphalian thinking. Against this backdrop, the book proposes to advance a truly global IR understanding of the post-hegemonic world, and weaves together the pluralist and multi-disciplinary perspectives of scholars located all around the world.

The Regional World Order
The Regional World Order

Author: Alexei D. Voskressenski

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-04-15

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 149858070X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the evolving post-Westphalian world regional entities become key political and economic players as the authors argue in this volume. As a result of regionalization, the international politics and economics is witnessing great transformations too. This volume explores some ideas of how these transformations may develop. It is written by three generations of researchers and scholars at European, Russian, and Asian higher education institutions. Their different perspectives are integrated in a coherent, multi-dimensional view to answer challenges facing what is called increasingly “Greater Eurasia”. The volume employs a rigorous conceptual framework over a wide geographic range and applies different approaches to ask and answer challenging questions. The arguments presented in this book are built around the concepts of regionalism and transregionalism. The volume is focusing on three different geographical entities: Europe, Eurasia and East Asia, and examines ASEM, EAEU, BRI, EU, ASEAN, CIS, as well as TTIP, TTP, OBOR .

Eurasian Regionalisms and Russian Foreign Policy
Eurasian Regionalisms and Russian Foreign Policy

Author: Mr Mikhail A Molchanov

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2015-05-28

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1409435342

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Bridging foreign policy analysis and international political economy, this volume offers a new look at the problem of agency in comparative regional integration studies. It examines evolving regional integration projects in the Eurasian space, defined as the former Soviet Union countries and China, and the impact that Russian foreign policy has had on integration in the region. By combining foreign policy studies with an examination of the international political economy of regionalism in Eurasia the author furthers our understanding of new regionalism, both theoretically and empirically.

Beyond the Monolith
Beyond the Monolith

Author: Peter J. Stavrakis

Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press

Published: 1997-09-26

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780801856174

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the wake of the USSR's breakup, the eighty-nine constituent subjects of the Russian Federation emerged as political players, grasping power for local policies from a weakened central authority and electing the legislators who have altered the complexion of the central government. Beyond the Monolith examines the impact of Russia's emerging regionalism on the political, economic, and social transformation of the largest of the successor states of the Soviet Union. The authors explore significant variations between and similarities among different provinces; the development of federalism in Russia; the effectiveness of local government; the power relationships between the center and the regions; the differential impact of privatization outside Moscow and St. Petersburg; and the role of environmental, public health, and labor market factors in regional economies. Contributors are Cynthia Buckley, Carol Clark, Robert V. Daniels, Mark. G. Field, Alexander A. Galkin, Nail Midkhatovich Moukhariamov, Demosthenes James Peterson, Greg Poelzer, Don K. Rowney, Darrell Slider, and John F. Young.

Eurasian Regionalism
Eurasian Regionalism

Author: S. Aris

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-11

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0230307647

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is attracting significant attention from governments and scholars. This study examines the evolution of the SCO as a regional security provider and a framework for cooperation, drawing on fieldwork interviews with officials and experts from its member-states.

The Political Economy of Regionalism
The Political Economy of Regionalism

Author: Edward D. Mansfield

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780231106634

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Exploring regionalism from a political economic perspective, this text investigates why regional arrangements are formed, the conditions under which these arrangements solidify, and why they take on different institutional forms.