Russia and Europe : building bridges, digging trenches / / edited by Kjell Engelbrekt and Bertil Nygren

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791312203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 0-415-62551-3; 0-203-85464-0; 1-136-99200-6; 1-136-99201-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
• Altri autori (Persone): EngelbrektKjell; NygrenBertil
• Disciplina: 327.4704
• Soggetti: Political culture - Russia (Federation); Political culture - Europe; Russia (Federation) Foreign relations Europe; Europe Foreign relations Russia (Federation); Russia (Federation) Politics and government 1991-; Europe Politics and government 1989-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published in 2010 by Routledge.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 A reassertive Russia and an expanded European Union; PART 1 Norms, values, and institutions; 2 Russia and Europe after the Cold War: cultural convergence or civilizational clash?; 3 Perceptions of democracy and democratic institution-building - electoral democracy the Russian way; 4 The theory and practice of reciprocity in EU-Russia relations; 5 Beyond the paradigm of integration in EU-Russia relations: sovereignty and the politics of resentment; PART 2 Moscow, Brussels and the big three; 6 The return of history: hard security issues in the Russia-Europe relationship7 Russia-EU relations: the economic dimension; 8 Germany-Russia relations, 1992-2009; 9 Russia and the European great powers: France; PART 3 'In-Between-Europe'; 10 European energy policy meets Russian bilateralism: the case of Southeastern Europe; 11 ; Ukraine's emerging democracy and the Russian factor; 12 Riding three horses: Moldova's enduring identity as a strategy for survival; 13 Conclusions and outlook; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Russian-European political relations have always been problematic and one of the main reasons for this is the different perspectives on even the very basic notions and concepts of political life. With a worldwide recession, the problems as well as the opportunities in Russian-European relations are magnified. While most works on Russian-European, Russian-American and Russian-West relations focus on current policies and explain them from a standard set of explanatory variables, this book penetrates deeper into the structural and ideational differences that tend to bring about misperceptions,