Understanding Conflict between Russia and the EU addresses the conflictual issues in EU-Russian relations and presents an innovative theory for the understanding of their emergence. Drawing on up-to-date research data, the author argues that conflicts in EU-Russian relations are generated by the clash of principles of state sovereignty and international integration, which characterize the policies of both sides.
Author(s): Sergei Prozorov
Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 240
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Cooperation and conflict in the EU–Russian strategic partnership......Page 16
Transitionalism/traditionalism: a critique of existing approaches to EU–Russian relations......Page 24
Conflict as a discursive structure: towards an interpretative model of EU–Russian conflict......Page 33
From issue to identity conflict: the 'Schengen curtain' and the oscillations of the problematic of exclusion......Page 40
Out of the united Europe: the liberal criticism of Russia's exclusion......Page 46
Liberation from the 'European myth': left conservatism and the problem of 'false Europe'......Page 51
Conclusion: from exclusion to hierarchical inclusion......Page 56
The lack of strategic intersubjectivity: issue and identity conflicts in the narrative of self-exclusion......Page 59
'Liberal empire': self-exclusion and the strategy of redoubling of Europe......Page 67
Getting over Europe: left conservatism and the demise of the question of ' European identity'......Page 72
Conclusion: beyond the exclusion/inclusion opposition in EU–Russian relations......Page 81
Structural determinants in EU–Russian encounters......Page 87
Interactional determinants in EU–Russian encounters......Page 108
European exclusion of Russia: the problem of visa and passport regimes......Page 115
Russia's self-exclusion from Europe: the problematic of integrated cross-border governance......Page 124
Cross-border integration and its limits: the case of Euregio Karelia......Page 141
Mutual delimitation: intersubjectivity and sovereign stability......Page 150
The paradoxes of integration in EU–Russian relations......Page 170
Toward a common European pluralism: EU–Russian relations and interaction without integration......Page 188
Notes......Page 198
Bibliography......Page 206
H......Page 221
R......Page 222
Z......Page 223
