Description
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Claims that the recently coherent and institutionalized spaces of communication and dialogue between Moscow and Brussels are fragmented into various segments of "viscous" liaisons that are neither cooperative nor necessarily adversarial.
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Engages with the ongoing crisis of all the models of Russia–EU relations.
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The book highlights the expanse of interaction that is constituted by the imitative nature of Russia’s foreign policy in general and its European track in particular; and focuses on the practical implementation of Russian-EU discourses and conceptualizations as specific policy instruments.
Table of Contents
The EU and Russia: space of interaction in times of crisis: an introduction Part I Cultures and philosophies 1. Democratic repertoires of political legitimization: Russian echoes and European realities 2. Russian cultural policy: from European governance towards conservative hegemony 3. Russia’s monuments policy in the Baltic States 4. Russian World(s) in Vienna: agents, compatriots, and people Part II Policies and politics 5. National conservative parties in Baltic- Nordic Europe: no countries for Putin’s men 6. The political discourse of the Kremlin in Spain: channels, messages, and interpretive frameworks 7. Russia’s strategy of influence in Europe: a French case study 8. Russian threat as a push factor in the European integration discourse in Poland 9. The European Union and Russia in the contested South Caucasus: how to move forward Part III Legal norms and practices beyond the (EU)rope 10. Defending its rights or testing the limits? Trade relations and disputes between Russia and the EU before and after the Ukraine crisis 11. Who may sail the Arctic? Russia’s and the EU’s perspectives on the legal status of the Northern sea route 12. The institution of citizenship and practices of passportization in Russia’s European neighbourhood policies Part IV Methodological conclusion How to study and teach anew EU– Russia relations: a methodological conclusion in seven points
