Russia abroad: driving regional fracture in post-Communist Eurasia and beyond

While we know a great deal about the benefits of regional integration, there is a knowledge gap when it comes to areas with weak, dysfunctional, or nonexistent regional fabric in political and economic life. Further, deliberate "un-regioning," applied by actors external as well as internal...

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Contributors: Ohanyan, Anna (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC Georgetown University Press [2018]
In:Year: 2018
Online Access: Table of Contents
Literaturverzeichnis
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Keywords:
Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten
Regionalism
Geopolitics
Politischer Prozess
Regionalentwicklung
Kollektive Sicherheit
Staatensystem
Regionalisierung
Entwicklung
Rückbildung
Auflösung
Internationale Organisation
Nachbarschaft
Geopolitik
Former Soviet republics > Foreign relations > Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) > Foreign relations
Russia (Federation) > Foreign relations > Former Soviet republics
Russland
Aufsatzsammlung
Russland > Außenpolitik > Nachbarstaat > Westbalkan > Naher Osten > Destabilisierung
Russland > Außenpolitik > Regionalkonflikt > Geopolitik
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: 1039948138
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Summary:While we know a great deal about the benefits of regional integration, there is a knowledge gap when it comes to areas with weak, dysfunctional, or nonexistent regional fabric in political and economic life. Further, deliberate "un-regioning," applied by actors external as well as internal to a region, has also gone unnoticed despite its increasingly sophisticated modern application by Russia in its peripheries. This volume helps us understand what Anna Ohanyan calls "fractured regions" and their consequences for contemporary global security. Ohanyan introduces a theory of regional fracture to explain how and why regions come apart, consolidate dysfunctional ties within the region, and foster weak states. Russia Abroad specifically examines how Russia employs regional fracture as a strategy to keep states on its periphery in Eurasia and the Middle East weak and in Russia's orbit. It argues that the level of regional maturity in Russia's vast vicinities is an important determinant of Russian foreign policy in the emergent multipolar world order. Many of these fractured regions become global security threats because weak states are more likely to be hubs of transnational crime, havens for militants, or sites of protracted conflict. The regional fracture theory is offered as a fresh perspective about the post-American world and a way to broaden international relations scholarship on comparative regionalism.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis Seite 181-204, Register
Physical Description:viii, 220 Seiten
ISBN:9781626166202
9781626166196