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The conflict in Ukraine and Russia's annexation of Crimea has
undoubtedly been a pivotal moment for policy makers and military
planners in Europe and beyond. Many analysts see an unexpected
character in the conflict and expect negative reverberations and a
long-lasting period of turbulence and uncertainty, the
de-legitimation of international institutions and a declining role
for global norms and rules. Did these events bring substantial
correctives and modifications to the extant conceptualization of
International Relations? Does the conflict significantly alter
previous assumptions and foster a new academic vocabulary, or, does
it confirm the validity of well-established schools of thought in
international relations? Has the crisis in Ukraine confirmed the
vitality and academic vigour of conventional concepts? These
questions are the starting points for this book covering
conceptualisations from rationalist to reflectivist, and from
quantitative to qualitative. Most contributors agree that many of
the old concepts, such as multi-polarity, spheres of influence,
sovereignty, or even containment, are still cognitively valid, yet
believe the eruption of the crisis means that they are now used in
different contexts and thus infused with different meanings. It is
these multiple, conceptual languages that the volume puts at the
centre of its analysis. This text will be of great interest to
students and scholars studying international relations, politics,
and Russian and Ukrainian studies.
The conflict in Ukraine and Russia's annexation of Crimea has
undoubtedly been a pivotal moment for policy makers and military
planners in Europe and beyond. Many analysts see an unexpected
character in the conflict and expect negative reverberations and a
long-lasting period of turbulence and uncertainty, the
de-legitimation of international institutions and a declining role
for global norms and rules. Did these events bring substantial
correctives and modifications to the extant conceptualization of
International Relations? Does the conflict significantly alter
previous assumptions and foster a new academic vocabulary, or, does
it confirm the validity of well-established schools of thought in
international relations? Has the crisis in Ukraine confirmed the
vitality and academic vigour of conventional concepts? These
questions are the starting points for this book covering
conceptualisations from rationalist to reflectivist, and from
quantitative to qualitative. Most contributors agree that many of
the old concepts, such as multi-polarity, spheres of influence,
sovereignty, or even containment, are still cognitively valid, yet
believe the eruption of the crisis means that they are now used in
different contexts and thus infused with different meanings. It is
these multiple, conceptual languages that the volume puts at the
centre of its analysis. This text will be of great interest to
students and scholars studying international relations, politics,
and Russian and Ukrainian studies.
This book focuses on the recent political trajectories within the
Baltic Sea Region from one of the success stories of regionalism in
Europe to a potential area of military confrontation between Russia
and NATO. The authors closely examine the following issues: new
security challenges for the region stemming from Russia's staunch
anti-EU and anti-NATO polices, institutions and practices of
multi-level governance in the region, and different cultural
strategies that regional actors employ. The common threads of this
innovative volume are issues of changing borders and boundaries in
the region, and logics of inclusion and exclusion that shape its
political contours. From diverse disciplinary and methodological
positions the authors explain policies of specific Baltic Sea
states, as well as structural matters that make them a region.
The edited volume explains why sport mega events can be discussed
from the viewpoint of politics and power, and what this discussion
can add to the existing scholarship on political regimes,
international norms, national identities, and cultural narratives.
The book collects case studies written by insiders from different
countries of post-Soviet Eurasia that have recently hosted- or
intend to host in the future -sporting events of a global scale.
Contributing authors discuss cultural, political, and economic
strategies of host governments, examining them from the vantage
point of an increasing shift of the global sport industry to
non-Western countries. Mega-events often draw domestic lines of
cultural and social exclusion within host's polities. It is these
ruptures and gaps this volume explores, contributing to a better
understanding of the intricate interconnections between global
institutions and national identities.
In post-Soviet Russian politics, Boris Nemtsov is one of the most
tragic figuresand not only because he was shot dead, at the age of
56, in close vicinity to the Kremlin, the locus of Russias power.
The transparency of evil in this specific case was shocking:
Nemtsovs murder was filmed by a surveillance camera. The video tape
confirms the demonstrative and insolent character of the
assassination. His death illuminated a core feature of the current
regime that tolerates, if not incites, extra-legal actions against
those it considers to be foes, traitors, or members of the Fifth
Column. In this volume Boris Nemtsov is commemorated from different
perspectives. In addition to academic papers, it includes personal
notes and reflections. The articles represent a range of
assessments of Nemtsovs personality by people for whom he was one
of the leading figures in post-Soviet politics and a major
protagonist in Russias transformation. Some authors had direct
experiences of either living in, or travelling to, Nizhny Novgorod
when Nemtsov was governor there. The plurality of opinions
collected in this volume matches the diversity and multiplicity of
Nemtsovs political legacy. The volumes contributors include: David
J. Kramer, Senior Director at the McCain Institute for
International Leadership in Washington, DC; Miguel Vazquez Linan,
Associate Professor at Seville University; Yulia Kurnyshova,
Research Fellow at the National Institute for Strategic Studies in
Kyiv; Ekaterina Smagly, Director of the Kennan Institute in Kyiv;
Henry E. Hale, Professor at The George Washington University in
Washington, DC; Howard J. Wiarda ( 2015), Professor at the
University of Georgia; Sharon Werning Rivera, Associate Professor
at Hamilton College; Tomila Lankina, Associate Professor at the
London School of Economics and Political Science; Andre Mommen (
2017), Professor at the University of Amsterdam; Stefan Meister,
Director at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin;
Vladimir Gelman, Professor at the University of Helsinki; Vladimir
V. Kara-Murza, coordinator of the Open Russia movement and deputy
leader of the Peoples Freedom Party of Russia.
This book focuses on the recent political trajectories within the
Baltic Sea Region from one of the success stories of regionalism in
Europe to a potential area of military confrontation between Russia
and NATO. The authors closely examine the following issues: new
security challenges for the region stemming from Russia's staunch
anti-EU and anti-NATO polices, institutions and practices of
multi-level governance in the region, and different cultural
strategies that regional actors employ. The common threads of this
innovative volume are issues of changing borders and boundaries in
the region, and logics of inclusion and exclusion that shape its
political contours. From diverse disciplinary and methodological
positions the authors explain policies of specific Baltic Sea
states, as well as structural matters that make them a region.
This book is a critical attempt to cast a biopolitical gaze at the
process of subjectification of Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and
Estonia in terms of multiple and overlapping regimes of belonging,
performativity, and (de)bordering. The authors strive to go beyond
the traditional understandings of biopolitics as a set of policies
corresponding to the management and regulation of (pre)existing
populations. In their opinion, biopolitics might be part of nation
building, a force that produces collective political identities
grounded in the acceptance of sets of corporeal practices of
control over human bodies and their physical existence. For the
authors, to look critically at this biopolitical gaze on the realm
of the post-Soviet means also to rethink the correlation between
the biopolitical vision of the post-Soviet and the biopolitical
epistemology on the post-Soviet, which would demand a new
vocabulary. The critical biopolitics might be one of these
vocabularies, which would fulfill this request.
Yuri Lotman (1922-1993) was a prominent Russian intellectual and
theorist. This book presents a new reading of his semiotic and
philosophical legacy. The authors analyse Lotman's semiotics in a
series of temporal contexts, starting with the rigidity of
Soviet-era ideologies, through to the post-Soviet de-politicization
that - paradoxically enough - ended with the reproduction of
Soviet-style hegemonic discourse in the Kremlin and ultimately
reignited politically divisive conflicts between Russia and Europe.
The book demonstrates how Lotman's ideas cross disciplinary
boundaries and their relevance to many European theorists of
cultural studies, discourse analysis and political philosophy.
Lotman lived and worked in Estonia, which, even under Soviet rule,
maintained its own borderland identity located at the intersection
of Russian and European cultural flows. The authors argue that in
this context Lotman's theories are particularly revealing in
relation to Russian-European interactions and communications, both
historically and in a more contemporary sense.
Yuri Lotman (1922-1993) was a prominent Russian intellectual and
theorist. This book presents a new reading of his semiotic and
philosophical legacy. The authors analyse Lotman's semiotics in a
series of temporal contexts, starting with the rigidity of
Soviet-era ideologies, through to the post-Soviet de-politicization
that - paradoxically enough - ended with the reproduction of
Soviet-style hegemonic discourse in the Kremlin and ultimately
reignited politically divisive conflicts between Russia and Europe.
The book demonstrates how Lotman's ideas cross disciplinary
boundaries and their relevance to many European theorists of
cultural studies, discourse analysis and political philosophy.
Lotman lived and worked in Estonia, which, even under Soviet rule,
maintained its own borderland identity located at the intersection
of Russian and European cultural flows. The authors argue that in
this context Lotman's theories are particularly revealing in
relation to Russian-European interactions and communications, both
historically and in a more contemporary sense.
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