Vocabularies of International Relations After the Crisis in Ukraine

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4724-8860-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 242 mm x 164 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

Reihe: Post-Soviet Politics

The conflict in Ukraine and Russia's annexation of Crimea has undoubtedly been a pivotal moment for policy makers and military planners in Europe and beyond. Many analysts see an unexpected character in the conflict and expect negative reverberations and a long-lasting period of turbulence and uncertainty, the de-legitimation of international institutions and a declining role for global norms and rules. Did these events bring substantial correctives and modifications to the extant conceptualization of International Relations? Does the conflict significantly alter previous assumptions and foster a new academic vocabulary, or, does it confirm the validity of well-established schools of thought in international relations? Has the crisis in Ukraine confirmed the vitality and academic vigour of conventional concepts?

These questions are the starting points for this book covering conceptualisations from rationalist to reflectivist, and from quantitative to qualitative. Most contributors agree that many of the old concepts, such as multi-polarity, spheres of influence, sovereignty, or even containment, are still cognitively valid, yet believe the eruption of the crisis means that they are now used in different contexts and thus infused with different meanings. It is these multiple, conceptual languages that the volume puts at the centre of its analysis.

This text will be of great interest to students and scholars studying international relations, politics, and Russian and Ukrainian studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Makarychev, Andrey

Yatsyk, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. ‘There are More Important Things than Where the Border Runs’: The Other Side of George Kennan’s Containment Theory

2. The Crisis of Spheres of Influence in the EU-Russia Relationship

3. Borderline strategies: calibrated territorial expansionism in the game theory searchlight

4. From ‘colony’ to ‘failing state’? Ukrainian sovereignty in the gaze of Russian foreign policy discourses

5. Reconsidering Western concepts of the Ukrainian conflict: The rise to prominence of Russia’s "soft Power" policy

6. Rising powers in the Contemporary World: Sources of Sustainability

7. Governmentality Beyond the West: (post)political machineries in Ukraine and Russia

8. Managing national ressentiment: morality politics in Putin’s Russia

9. Stabilizing dispersed identities, or Why politics defines EU-Russia disconnections

Über Autor(innen)

Andrey Makarychev is Guest Professor of Politics and Governance at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He is widely published on a variety of topics related to Russian foreign policy, including a co-edited volume with Routledge, 2014, a monograph with Ibidem & Columbia University Press, 2014, book chapters in edited volumes with Palgrave Macmillan, Ashgate, Wiley Blackwell and other publishers, and research articles in major peer-reviewed international journals such as Problems of Post-Communism, Journal of International Relations and Development, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Eurasian Studies, Demokratizatsiya, European Urban and Regional Studies and others. Alexandra Yatsyk is Carnegie Research Scholar at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University, USA) and Head of the Centre for Cultural Studies of Post-Socialism (Kazan Federal University, Russia). She has also worked as a lecturer and a visiting researcher at the School of Language, Translation and Literature Studies (University of Tampere, Finland), the Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine), and the Centre for EU-Russia Studies (University of Tartu, Estonia). Her research interests include representations of post-Soviet national identities, sports and cultural mega-events, Russia’s protest art, and biopolitics. She is author of chapters published with Palgrave Macmillan (2015), and articles in European Urban and Regional Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, International Spectator, Digital Icons, and other journals.