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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were high hopes of
Russia's "modernisation" and rapid political and economic
integration with the EU. But now, given its own policies of
national development, Russia appears to have limits to
integration'. Today, much European political discourse again evokes
East/West civilisational divides and antagonistic geopolitical
interests in EU-Russia relations. This book provides a carefully
researched and timely analysis of this complex relationship and
examines whether this turn in public debate corresponds to
local-level experience -- particularly in border areas where the
European Union and Russian Federation meet. This multidisciplinary
book - covering geopolitics, international relations, political
economy and human geography - argues that the concept limits to
integration' has its roots in geopolitical reasoning; it examines
how Russian regional actors have adapted to the challenges of
simultaneous internal and external integration, and what kind of
strategies they have developed in order to meet the pressures
coming across the border and from the federal centre. It analyses
the reconstitution of Northwest Russia as an economic, social and
political space, and the role cross-border interaction has had in
this process. The book illustrates how a comparative regional
perspective offers insights into the EU-Russia relationship: even
if geopolitics sets certain constraints to co-operation, and market
processes have led to conflict in cross-border interaction, several
actors have been able to take initiative and create space for
increasing cross-border integration in the conditions of Russia's
internal reconstitution.
This book critically analyses the changing EU-Russian security
environment in the wake of the Ukraine crisis, with a particular
focus on northern Europe where the EU and the Russian Federation
share a common border. Russian involvement in conflict situations
in the EU’s immediate neighbourhood has drastically impacted the
European security environment, leading to a resurgence of
competitive great power relations. The book uses the EU-Russia
interface at the borders of Finland and the European North as a
prism through which interwoven external and internal security
challenges can be explored. Security is considered in the broadest
sense of the term, as the authors consider how the security
environment is reflected politically, socially and culturally
within European societies. The book analyses changing political
language and concepts, institutional preparedness, border
governance, human security, migration and wider challenges to
societal resilience. Ultimately, the book investigates into
Finland’s preparedness to address new global security challenges
and to find solutions to them on an everyday level. This book will
be an important guide for researchers and upper-level students of
security, border studies, Russian and European studies, as well as
to policy makers looking to develop a wider, contextualized
understanding of the challenges to stability and security in
different parts of Europe.
This book critically analyses the changing EU-Russian security
environment in the wake of the Ukraine crisis, with a particular
focus on northern Europe where the EU and the Russian Federation
share a common border. Russian involvement in conflict situations
in the EU's immediate neighbourhood has drastically impacted the
European security environment, leading to a resurgence of
competitive great power relations. The book uses the EU-Russia
interface at the borders of Finland and the European North as a
prism through which interwoven external and internal security
challenges can be explored. Security is considered in the broadest
sense of the term, as the authors consider how the security
environment is reflected politically, socially and culturally
within European societies. The book analyses changing political
language and concepts, institutional preparedness, border
governance, human security, migration and wider challenges to
societal resilience. Ultimately, the book investigates into
Finland's preparedness to address new global security challenges
and to find solutions to them on an everyday level. This book will
be an important guide for researchers and upper-level students of
security, border studies, Russian and European studies, as well as
to policy makers looking to develop a wider, contextualized
understanding of the challenges to stability and security in
different parts of Europe.
In the aftermath of the Ukraine crises, borders within the wider
post-Cold War and post-Soviet context have become a key issue for
international relations and public political debate. These borders
are frequently viewed in terms of military preparedness and
confrontation, but behind armed territorial conflicts there has
been a broader shift in the regional balance of power and
sovereignty. This book explores border conflicts in the EU's
eastern neighbourhood via a detailed focus on state power and
sovereignty, set in the context of post-Cold war politics and
international relations. By identifying changing definitions of
sovereignty and political space the authors highlight competing
strategies of legitimising and challenging borders that have
emerged as a result of geopolitical transformations of the last
three decades. This book uses comparative studies to examine
country specific variation in border negotiation and conflict, and
pays close attention to shifts in political debates that have taken
place between the end of State Socialism, the collapse of the
Soviet Union and the outbreak of the Ukraine crises. From this
angle, Post-Cold War Borders sheds new light on change and
variation in the political rhetoric of the EU, the Russian
Federation, Ukraine and neighbouring EU member countries.
Ultimately, the book aims to provide a new interpretation of
changes in international order and how they relate to shifting
concepts of sovereignty and territoriality in post-Cold war Europe.
Shedding new light on negotiation and conflict over post-Soviet
borders, this book will be of interest to students, researchers and
policy makers in the fields of Russian and East European studies,
international relations, geography, border studies and politics.
The collapse of the Soviet Union has had profound and long-lasting
impacts on the societies of Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and
Central Asia, impacts which are not yet fully worked through:
changes in state-society relations, a comprehensive reconfiguration
of political, economic and social ties, the resurgence of regional
conflicts "frozen" during the Soviet period, and new migration
patterns both towards Russia and the European Union. At the same
time the EU has emerged as an important player in the region,
formulating its European Neighbourhood Policy, and engaging
neighbouring states in a process of cross-border regional
co-operation. This book explores a wide range of complex and
contested questions related to borders, security and migration in
the emerging "European Neighbourhood" which includes countries of
the Caucasus and Central Asia as well as the countries which
immediately border the EU. Issues discussed include new forms of
regional and cross-border co-operation, new patterns of migration,
and the potential role of the EU as a stabilizing external force.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0
license.
In the aftermath of the Ukraine crises, borders within the wider
post-Cold War and post-Soviet context have become a key issue for
international relations and public political debate. These borders
are frequently viewed in terms of military preparedness and
confrontation, but behind armed territorial conflicts there has
been a broader shift in the regional balance of power and
sovereignty. This book explores border conflicts in the EU's
eastern neighbourhood via a detailed focus on state power and
sovereignty, set in the context of post-Cold war politics and
international relations. By identifying changing definitions of
sovereignty and political space the authors highlight competing
strategies of legitimising and challenging borders that have
emerged as a result of geopolitical transformations of the last
three decades. This book uses comparative studies to examine
country specific variation in border negotiation and conflict, and
pays close attention to shifts in political debates that have taken
place between the end of State Socialism, the collapse of the
Soviet Union and the outbreak of the Ukraine crises. From this
angle, Post-Cold War Borders sheds new light on change and
variation in the political rhetoric of the EU, the Russian
Federation, Ukraine and neighbouring EU member countries.
Ultimately, the book aims to provide a new interpretation of
changes in international order and how they relate to shifting
concepts of sovereignty and territoriality in post-Cold war Europe.
Shedding new light on negotiation and conflict over post-Soviet
borders, this book will be of interest to students, researchers and
policy makers in the fields of Russian and East European studies,
international relations, geography, border studies and politics.
First published in 1999, this book examines the construction of new
political, economic and mental borders in post-Cold War Europe.
Various national and regional settings are analyzed along the old
East-West divide. In post-Cold War Europe the East-West divide no
longer exists in the form of the clear-cut Iron Curtain, separating
two security blocs, two politico-economic systems, and two
ideologically and culturally distinct worlds. Still, it remains
clearly discernible, both in the form of unrelenting
politico-cultural differences and as an economic Golden Curtain. At
the same time, a more complicated system of intersecting political,
economic and mental borders keeps developing. Today, there are
various scales of interaction, which produce distinctive national,
regional and local experiences of borders. In this book, the
construction of new political, economic and mental borders is
analysed by specialists from both sides of the former East-West
divide. The future of European borders is discussed in various
national and regional settings, from the Barents Region in the
North to the Old Habsburgian lands in 'Mitteleuropa'.
First published in 1999, this book examines the construction of new
political, economic and mental borders in post-Cold War Europe.
Various national and regional settings are analyzed along the old
East-West divide. In post-Cold War Europe the East-West divide no
longer exists in the form of the clear-cut Iron Curtain, separating
two security blocs, two politico-economic systems, and two
ideologically and culturally distinct worlds. Still, it remains
clearly discernible, both in the form of unrelenting
politico-cultural differences and as an economic Golden Curtain. At
the same time, a more complicated system of intersecting political,
economic and mental borders keeps developing. Today, there are
various scales of interaction, which produce distinctive national,
regional and local experiences of borders. In this book, the
construction of new political, economic and mental borders is
analysed by specialists from both sides of the former East-West
divide. The future of European borders is discussed in various
national and regional settings, from the Barents Region in the
North to the Old Habsburgian lands in 'Mitteleuropa'.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were high hopes of
Russia's "modernisation" and rapid political and economic
integration with the EU. But now, given its own policies of
national development, Russia appears to have 'limits to
integration'. Today, much European political discourse again evokes
East/West civilisational divides and antagonistic geopolitical
interests in EU-Russia relations. This book provides a carefully
researched and timely analysis of this complex relationship and
examines whether this turn in public debate corresponds to
local-level experience - particularly in border areas where the
European Union and Russian Federation meet. This multidisciplinary
book - covering geopolitics, international relations, political
economy and human geography - argues that the concept 'limits to
integration' has its roots in geopolitical reasoning; it examines
how Russian regional actors have adapted to the challenges of
simultaneous internal and external integration, and what kind of
strategies they have developed in order to meet the pressures
coming across the border and from the federal centre. It analyses
the reconstitution of Northwest Russia as an economic, social and
political space, and the role cross-border interaction has had in
this process. The book illustrates how a comparative regional
perspective offers insights into the EU-Russia relationship: even
if geopolitics sets certain constraints to co-operation, and market
processes have led to conflict in cross-border interaction, several
actors have been able to take initiative and create space for
increasing cross-border integration in the conditions of Russia's
internal reconstitution.
The collapse of the Soviet Union has had profound and long-lasting
impacts on the societies of Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and
Central Asia, impacts which are not yet fully worked through:
changes in state-society relations, a comprehensive reconfiguration
of political, economic and social ties, the resurgence of regional
conflicts "frozen" during the Soviet period, and new migration
patterns both towards Russia and the European Union. At the same
time the EU has emerged as an important player in the region,
formulating its European Neighbourhood Policy, and engaging
neighbouring states in a process of cross-border regional
co-operation. This book explores a wide range of complex and
contested questions related to borders, security and migration in
the emerging "European Neighbourhood" which includes countries of
the Caucasus and Central Asia as well as the countries which
immediately border the EU. Issues discussed include new forms of
regional and cross-border co-operation, new patterns of migration,
and the potential role of the EU as a stabilizing external force.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0
license.
This book pursues a dual objective: on the one hand, it focuses on
the actual and potential roles of civil society in developing new
forms of political, economic, and socio-cultural cooperation
between the European Union and its neighbours. On the other hand,
through this investigation of civil society networks we will
contribute to debate on the EU's role as promoter of greater
regional co-operation. The rationale for this collection is thus
defined by changing political relationships between the 27-member
European Union and countries in its immediate vicinity. These
transformations include the ongoing but by no means straightforward
process of Turkey's EU membership, an evolving (and complex)
partnership with Russia and the development of deeper political,
economic and social relationships with many other neighbouring
countries. More specifically, the work presented here involves
comparative studies of how the EU is perceived by civil society
actors both within and outside the EU. We ask whether the EU's
promotion of cross-border co-operation (e.g. though the European
Neighbourhood Policy) is empowering civil society within member
states and in neighbouring countries such as Russia, Moldova,
Turkey and Morocco. This book was based on a special issue of
Journal of European Integration.
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