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Russian-European relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Region = great power identity and the idea of Europe /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Russian-European relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Region/ by Vsevolod Samokhvalov.
Reminder of title:	great power identity and the idea of Europe /
Author:	Samokhvalov, Vsevolod.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	xiii, 290 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Political Science and International Relations. -
Subject:	Balkan Peninsula - Civilization. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52078-0
ISBN:	9783319520780

Russian-European relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Region = great power identity and the idea of Europe /
Samokhvalov, Vsevolod.

Russian-European relations in the Balkans and Black Sea Regiongreat power identity and the idea of Europe /[electronic resource] :by Vsevolod Samokhvalov. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xiii, 290 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

I: Russian-European relations: an "unexpected" crisis -- II: Greatness, Identity and Method -- III: Writing Russianness, Greatness and Europe in the 1960s -- IV: Writing Russianness, Greatness, Europe and the Balkans in the late Soviet Discourse in the 1980s -- V: Russian-European Security Interaction and the Idea of Great Powerhood between 1991-1999 -- VI: Reinvention of Europe and EU-Russia Relations in Putin's Era 2000-2010 -- VII: "Black Swan": New Greatness, False Europe and the Ukraine Crisis (2002-2014) -- VIII: Conclusions.

This book provides a detailed analysis of Russia's 'great power identity' and the role of Europe in forming this identity. 'Great power identity' implies an expansionist foreign policy, and yet this does not explain all the complexities of the Russian state. For instance, it cannot explain why Russia decided to take over Crimea, but provided only limited support to break-away regions in Eastern Ukraine. Moreover, if Russia is in geo-economic competition with Europe, why has no serious conflict erupted between Moscow and other post-Soviet states which developed closer ties with the EU? Finally, why does Putin maintain relationships with the European countries that imposed tough economic sanctions on Russia? Vsevolod Samokhvalov provides a more nuanced understanding of Russia's great power identity by drawing on his experience in regional diplomacy and research and applying a constructivist methodology. The book will appeal to students and scholars of international relations, in particular Russian-European relations, Russian foreign policy and Russian studies. Vsevolod Samokhvalov helps us understand contemporary Russian relations with Europe and the world by exploring how Soviet and current Russian foreign policy elites understand their past. In particular, Soviet and Russian great power identity has been forged in contact and conflict with the frontier sweeping from the Black Sea to the Balkans, as imagined in historical fiction and universally read history textbooks. Samokhvalov opens the readers' eyes to an entirely new dimension of Russian foreign policy and its origins. - Professor Ted Hopf, National University of Singapore.

ISBN: 9783319520780

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-52078-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1069667
Political Science and International Relations.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

799438
Balkan Peninsula
--Civilization.

LC Class. No.: DR38.3.R8 / S26 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 949.6038

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