|
Showing 1 - 3 of
3 matches in All Departments
Traditionally Belarus has always had a special status in Russia’s
foreign policy. Russia’s approach towards a key political and
military ally and a “Slavic brother” was always an indicator of
how Russia would see the optimal relationships with other countries
of the post-Soviet space. At this moment Belarus-Russia relations
are evolving in unexpected ways. The two interconnected crises –
the Belarusian mass protests of 2020 and Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine – have had a profound impact on the Belarusian regime and
society, the regional security and Russian policy towards Belarus.
This book explores the ongoing development of Belarus-Russia
relations and discusses the future of the relationship. This edited
volume reviews the state of the relationship and underlines key
emergent trends of Belarus’s and Russia’s policies towards each
other to identify new mechanisms and practices as they shape into a
new model. The book is comprised of in-depth empirical
contributions in a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on
cooperation in political, economic, security, media, and societal
domains within a broader regional context.
This book examines the politics and international relations of
Central Europe (the Visegrad Four) three decades after the fall of
communism. Once bound together by a common geopolitical vision of
"returning to the West," the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and
Slovakia now find themselves in a more ambiguous position. The 2015
European migration crisis exposed serious normative differences
with Western Europe, leading to a collective V4 rebellion against
the European Union's migration policies. At the same time, as this
book demonstrates-despite this normative rift with Western Europe
and despite the democratic backsliding in some of the V4
states-they remain deeply dependent on the West in both symbolic
and material terms. Furthermore, ways in which individual Central
European states position themselves vis-a-vis the West exhibit
notable differences, informed by their specific political and
cultural legacies. The author examines these in separate country
chapters. This book also contains a chapter that analyzes the
effect of the COVID-19 crisis on political discourses in the V4.
This study 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 analysis (in
its evolutionary phase known to the scholarly community by its
subtitle) 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 intended 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 survey of Russian
official 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 Putin's second term in power.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Tenet
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, …
DVD
R53
Discovery Miles 530
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.