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While we know a great deal about the benefits of regional integration, there is a knowledge gap when it comes to areas with weak, dysfunctional, or nonexistent regional fabric in political and economic life. Further, deliberate "un-regioning," applied by actors external as well as internal to a region, has also gone unnoticed despite its increasingly sophisticated modern application by Russia in its peripheries. 
This volume helps us understand what Anna Ohanyan calls "fractured regions" and their consequences for contemporary global security. Ohanyan introduces a theory of regional fracture to explain how and why regions come apart, consolidate dysfunctional ties within the region, and foster weak states. Russia Abroad specifically examines how Russia employs regional fracture as a strategy to keep states on its periphery in Eurasia and the Middle East weak and in Russia's orbit. It argues that the level of regional maturity in Russia's vast vicinities is an important determinant of Russian foreign policy in the emergent multipolar world order. 
Many of these fractured regions become global security threats because weak states are more likely to be hubs of transnational crime, havens for militants, or sites of protracted conflict. 
The regional fracture theory is offered as a fresh perspective about the post-American world and a way to broaden international relations scholarship on comparative regionalism.
Contents
Acknowledgments 
Introduction: Margins Matter
Anna Ohanyan
Part I: Theory of Regional Fracture
1. Theory of Regional Fracture in International Relations: Beyond Russia
Anna Ohanyan
2. From Donbass to Damascus: Russia on the Move 
Robert Nalbandov 
Part II: Lenin's Revenge: Regional Fracture in the Post-Soviet Space
3. Fractured Eurasian Borderlands: The Case of Ukraine 
Vsevolod Samokhvalov 
4. The South Caucasus: Fracture without End?
Laurence Broers 
5. Small States and the Large Costs of Regional Fracture: The Case of Armenia 
Richard Giragosian
6. Central Asia: Fractured Region, Illiberal Regionalism
David G. Lewis 
Part III: Postcolonial Roots of Regional Fracture beyond the Post-Soviet Space
7. Stuck in Between: The Western Balkans as a Fractured Region 
Dimitar Bechev 
8. Syria and the Middle East: Fracture Meets Fracture 
Mark N. Katz 
Conclusion: Overcoming Regional Fracture 
Anna Ohanyan
References
List of Contributors
Index

              
              
              

