Vocabularies of international relations after the crisis in Ukraine / / edited by Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910148737303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Routledge, 2017
• ISBN: 9781315457338 (e-book); 9781472488602 (hbk.); 9781032179407 (pbk.)
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 174 p.)
• Collana: Post-soviet politics
• Altri autori (Persone): MakarychevA. S (Andrei Stanislavovich); YatsykAlexandra
• Disciplina: 327
• Soggetti: World politics - 21st century; International relations; Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014- - Influence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 : salibrated 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 force' 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 -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The conflict in Ukraine and Russia's annexation of Crimea has undoubtedly been a pivotal moment for policy makers and military planners in Europe and beyond. Many analysts see an unexpected ; character in the conflict and expect negative reverberations and a long-lasting period of turbulence and uncertainty, the de-legitimation of international institutions and a declining role for global norms and rules. Did these events bring substantial correctives and modifications to the extant conceptualization of International Relations? Does the conflict significantly alter previous assumptions and foster a new academic vocabulary, or, does it confirm the validity of well-established schools of thought in international relations? Has the crisis in Ukraine confirmed the vitality and academic vigour of conventional concepts? These questions are the starting points for this book covering conceptualisations from rationalist to reflectivist, and from quantitative to qualitative. Most contributors agree that many of the old concepts, such as multi-polarity, spheres of influence, sovereignty, or even containment, are still cognitively valid, yet believe the eruption of the crisis means that they are now used in different contexts and thus infused with different meanings. It is these multiple, conceptual languages that the volume puts at the centre of its analysis. This text will be of great interest to students and scholars studying international relations, politics, and Russian and Ukrainian studies.