1st Edition
Vocabularies of International Relations after the Crisis in Ukraine
Introduction
Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk
1. ‘There are More Important Things than Where the Border Runs’: The Other Side of George Kennan’s Containment Theory
Alexander Astrov
2. The Crisis of Spheres of Influence in the EU-Russia Relationship
Iain Andrew Ferguson
3. Borderline strategies: calibrated territorial expansionism in the game theory searchlight
Mikhail Alexseev
4. From ‘colony’ to ‘failing state’? Ukrainian sovereignty in the gaze of Russian foreign policy discourses
Aliaksei Kazharski
5. Reconsidering Western concepts of the Ukrainian conflict: The rise to prominence of Russia’s "soft Power" policy
Stephen G F Hall
6. Rising powers in the Contemporary World: Sources of Sustainability
Irina Busygina
7. Governmentality Beyond the West: (post)political machineries in Ukraine and Russia
Alexandra Yatsyk
8. Managing national ressentiment: morality politics in Putin’s Russia
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
9. Stabilizing dispersed identities, or Why politics defines EU-Russia disconnections
Andrey Makarychev
Biography
Andrey Makarychev is Guest Professor at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Science, University of Tartu, Estonia. He has published many books and research articles on a variety of topics related to Russian foreign policy.
Alexandra Yatsyk is Visiting Researcher at the Centre Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Uppsala, Sweden, and Head of the Centre for Cultural Studies of Post-Socialism, Kazan Federal University, Russia.
"An exceedingly timely volume critically rethinking the most substantial concepts of international political theories and giving valuable insights for a better understanding of current EU’s and Russia’s policies after the Ukraine crisis." - Javier Solana, former Secretary General of NATO, the EU's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the EU and Secretary-General of the Western European Union.
