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1 online resource (ix, 133 pages) |
| Series |
U.S. and Russia, regional security issues and interests |
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U.S. and Russia, regional security issues and interests.
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| Contents |
The roots of special relationships: bargaining problems -- Partial integration vs. full integration -- International and domestic incentives to reform: the successful European integration model -- Prospects for anchoring post-Communist neighbors outside the EU -- The framework of relations: building a special relationship in lieu of Russia's membership in EU -- Russia's approach to partnership: underlying commitment problems -- Russia-EU partnership under Putin: tactical success and strategic stalemate -- The long and winding road to nebulous common spaces -- Economic asymmetries and energy interdependence -- Mutual ambivalence about the Europeanization and integration of Russia -- Russia's multi-vector strategy and the mixes appeal of "Euro-east" -- Integration with the West: an idea whose time keeps coming -- Conclusions |
| Summary |
More than 15 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and two decades after the last Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev, raised hopes that Russia would liberalize and join a common European home, Moscow again resorts to authoritarian means amid the continuing absence of a mutual agenda for Russia's integration into Western institutions. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia and the West have averted renewed confrontation but managed only to craft a series of half-formed, suboptimal partnerships -- with the European Union (EU), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the Group of 7 -- in which Russia is neither anchored by democratic rules nor fully excluded by Western institutions. These "special relationships," which have been often turbulent, are now seriously strained by Russia's stronger geopolitical position, boosted by sustained high economic growth and market power in energy, and newly-emboldened rulers, who seek to renegotiate terms. This monograph, which focuses on Russia and the EU, explains why such special relationships tend to produce shallow collaboration, symbolic summitry, and costly standoffs. It underscores the bargaining problems which block closer cooperation in areas of mutual interest, from managing energy interdependence, instability in the Balkans, and nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, to negotiating a new partnership and cooperation agreement. The ongoing disputes are over terms, not just enforcement, and rooted in asymmetries in power, uncertainty about the distributional costs and benefits of engagement, and mistrust generated by continued unwillingness or inability to lock-in the liberal domestic structures necessary for credible commitments or converge to European norms |
| Analysis |
Foreign relations -- European Union countries -- Russia (Federation) |
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European Union countries -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation) |
| Notes |
Title from title screen (viewed March 8, 2007) |
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"February 2007." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-133) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Diplomatic relations
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| SUBJECT |
Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- European Union countries
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European Union countries -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation)
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European Union countries
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Russia (Federation)
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Russia -- foreign policy -- EU -- Europe.
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Russia -- internal politics -- government.
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| Genre/Form |
Government publications
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute.
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