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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782736703321

Autore

Pourchot Georgeta

Titolo

Eurasia rising [[electronic resource] ] : democracy and independence in the post-Soviet space / / Georgeta Pourchot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger Security International, , 2008

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-64801-4

1-282-40383-4

9786612403835

0-275-99917-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

PSI reports

Disciplina

327.47

Soggetti

World politics - 1989-

Former Soviet republics Foreign relations Russia (Federation)

Russia (Federation) Foreign relations Former Soviet republics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sovereignty from within -- The vanguard Central European States -- The vanguard Former Soviet Republics -- The late-bloomer republics -- Russia and Eurasia - where to?.

Sommario/riassunto

Although the score of countries comprising Russia's near abroad (the former non-Russian Soviet republics) and far abroad (the former non-Russian Warsaw Pact states) are behaving with variably increasing independence in their domestic and foreign policies, Russia continues to regard them as remaining within the same core-periphery sphere of influence formerly exerted by the Soviet Union within the same geographic space. Russia misinterprets bids by these countries to adopt liberalizing structural reforms and to join Euro-Atlantic organizations as foreign-inspired and inimical to Russia's securi