RT Book
T1 Russia abroad: driving regional fracture in post-Communist Eurasia and beyond
A2 Ohanyan, Anna
LA English
PP Washington, DC
PB Georgetown University Press
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1027216838
AB 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.
NO Literaturverzeichnis Seite 181-204, Register
CN JZ1616
SN 9781626166202
SN 9781626166196
K1 Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten
K1 Regionalism
K1 Geopolitics
K1 Politischer Prozess
K1 Regionalentwicklung
K1 Kollektive Sicherheit
K1 Staatensystem
K1 Regionalisierung
K1 Entwicklung
K1 Rückbildung
K1 Auflösung
K1 Internationale Organisation
K1 Nachbarschaft
K1 Geopolitik
K1 Former Soviet republics : Foreign relations : Russia (Federation)
K1 Russia (Federation) : Foreign relations
K1 Russia (Federation) : Foreign relations : Former Soviet republics
K1 Russland
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
K1 Russland : Außenpolitik : Nachbarstaat : Westbalkan : Naher Osten : Destabilisierung
K1 Russland : Außenpolitik : Regionalkonflikt : Geopolitik