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The Caucasus, including the South Caucasus states and Russia's
North Caucasus, continues to be an area of instability and
conflict. This book, based on extensive original research, explores
in detail at both the local and regional level the interaction
between state and society and the impact of external actors'
engagement in the region within a conceptual framework linking
security and democracy. Unlike other books on the subject, which
tend to examine the issues from a Western political science
perspective, this book incorporates insights from sociology,
geography and anthropology as well as politics and contains
contributions from scholars who have carried out extensive research
in the region within a European Commission-funded Seventh Framework
Programme project.
This monograph provides a novel long-term approach to the role of
Russia's imperial legacies in its interactions with the former
Soviet space. It develops 'Hybrid Exceptionalism' as a critical
conceptual tool aimed at uncovering the great power's
self-positioning between 'East' and 'West', and its hierarchical
claims over subalterns situated in both civilizational imaginaries.
It explores how, in the Tsarist, Soviet, and contemporary eras,
distinct civilizational spaces were created, and maintained,
through narratives and practices emanating from Russia's ambiguous
relationship with Western modernity, and its part-identification
with a subordinated 'Orient'. The Romanov Empire's struggles with
'Russianness', the USSR's Marxism-Leninism, and contemporary
Russia's combination of feigned liberal and civilizational
discourses are explored as the basis of a series of successive
civilising missions, through an interdisciplinary engagement with
official discourses, scholarship, and the arts. The book concludes
with an exploration of contemporary policy implications for the
West, and the former Soviet states themselves.
This monograph provides a novel long-term approach to the role of
Russia's imperial legacies in its interactions with the former
Soviet space. It develops 'Hybrid Exceptionalism' as a critical
conceptual tool aimed at uncovering the great power's
self-positioning between 'East' and 'West', and its hierarchical
claims over subalterns situated in both civilizational imaginaries.
It explores how, in the Tsarist, Soviet, and contemporary eras,
distinct civilizational spaces were created, and maintained,
through narratives and practices emanating from Russia's ambiguous
relationship with Western modernity, and its part-identification
with a subordinated 'Orient'. The Romanov Empire's struggles with
'Russianness', the USSR's Marxism-Leninism, and contemporary
Russia's combination of feigned liberal and civilizational
discourses are explored as the basis of a series of successive
civilising missions, through an interdisciplinary engagement with
official discourses, scholarship, and the arts. The book concludes
with an exploration of contemporary policy implications for the
West, and the former Soviet states themselves.
This book provides a detailed, multi-level analysis of
international security in the South Caucasus and considers whether
this region of the former Soviet Union, with several as yet
unresolved, 'frozen' separatist conflicts, can move towards a more
peaceable future.Using three concepts from Regional Security
Complex Theory, amity/enmity, state incoherence and great power
penetration, Oskanian forms a unique conceptual expansion of the
theory, providing a comprehensive examination of both material
conditions and discourses of insecurity. Applying this expanded
framework onto a region of considerable complexity and conflict,
the book considers the hostility between the South Caucasian
states, the fissures underlying their secessionist conflicts, and
the regional involvement of great powers, outlining the broader
narratives that pervade societies in Armenia, Azerbaijan and
Georgia.The book also assesses the emergence of a security regime
in the Southern Caucasus and offers a critical-prescriptive
assessment of policy implications for both regional and
extra-regional actors concerned with improved regional stability.
This book provides a multi-level analysis of international security
in the South Caucasus. Using an expanded and adapted version of
Regional Security Complex Theory, it studies both material
conditions and discourses of insecurity in its assessment of the
region's possible transition towards a more peaceable future.
The Caucasus, including the South Caucasus states and Russia's
North Caucasus, continues to be an area of instability and
conflict. This book, based on extensive original research, explores
in detail at both the local and regional level the interaction
between state and society and the impact of external actors'
engagement in the region within a conceptual framework linking
security and democracy. Unlike other books on the subject, which
tend to examine the issues from a Western political science
perspective, this book incorporates insights from sociology,
geography and anthropology as well as politics and contains
contributions from scholars who have carried out extensive research
in the region within a European Commission-funded Seventh Framework
Programme project.
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