Russia has never been able to escape its relationship with Europe, or Europe with Russia. Geography and history have conspired to make them both neighbors and unavoidable factors in each other’s daily lives. From the early 1700s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Europe and Moscow both relied on material power to balance against any threats emerging from East and West. More recently, Europe and the EU have adopted a different strategy: make Russia non-threatening by making it European, like “us.” Meanwhile, Russia’s resistance to Europe’s assimilationist mission is increasingly robust, fuelled by energy exports to Europe and the world. Contributors to this volume wrestle with the question of whether the European project is feasible, desirable, or even ethical.
Author(s): Ted Hopf
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 275
City: New York, N.Y
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part 1 Russia and Europe, Historically Speaking......Page 20
1 Russia’s Standing as a Great Power, 1494–1815......Page 22
2 A Norm-Maker or a Norm-Taker? The Changing Normative Parameters of Russia’s Place in Europe......Page 44
Part 2 Russia and Europe: Making Policy......Page 66
3 Russian Foreign-Policy Decision Making on Europe......Page 68
Part 3 Russia and Europe: Relationship under Construction......Page 104
4 Russia’s Creeping Challenge to European Norms: European Promotion of Abolition of the Death Penalty in Russia......Page 106
5 Pan-European/International Transport Corridors at the Conjunction of Geography and Politics in Russia......Page 132
Part 4 Russia and Europe: Three Possible Conclusions......Page 156
6 Theories of Integration and the Limits of EU-Russian Relations......Page 158
7 Boundaries of Sovereignty, Frontiers of Integration: Rethinking "Conflict" between Russia and the EU......Page 196
8 The Stalemate in EU-Russia Relations: Between "Sovereignty" and "Europeanization"......Page 224
References......Page 242
C......Page 268
D......Page 269
G......Page 270
L......Page 271
P......Page 272
S......Page 273
W......Page 274
Z......Page 275
