Russia Abroad
![]() 220 pp., 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 9781626166196 (1626166196) 220 pp., 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 9781626166202 (162616620X) eBook ISBN: 9781626166219 E-Inspection Request E-Inspection October 2018 EXPLORE THIS TITLE DescriptionTable of Contents Reviews |
Russia Abroad
Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond
Anna Ohanyan, Editor
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. Anna Ohanyan is Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Stonehill College. She is the author of Networked Regionalism as Conflict Management and NGOs, IGOs, and the Network Mechanisms of Post-Conflict Global Governance in Microfinance.
Reviews
"Russia Abroad is a welcome addition to the literature on Russia's foreign policy and broader international relations."—The Russian Review "The TRF offered in the book is a welcome advance in studying Eurasian politics...and opens crucial avenues for discussing why Russia's neighborhood remains debilitated by a multitude of internal and external processes...in addressing the cost of regional fracture to global security, it opens pathways for ways to understand processes of "unregioning," thereby also offering policy advice to those governments that seek to prevent regional fracture."—H-Diplo "This is not just a book about Russian foreign policy. The new conceptualization of regional fracture and the accompanying theoretical framework are broadly applicable and provide an important counterweight to the often exclusive focus on regional integration in the scholarly and policymaking communities."—Paul F. Diehl, Associate Provost and Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Ashbel Smith Professor of Political Science, University of Texas-Dallas "Regions in International Relations are already subject to intensive if contested analysis. Lacking in that ever-expanding literature, however, is attention to regional fracture. This volume's impressive quality of contributors and cases provides empirically-rich understandings of Russian foreign policy and security issues concerning the former Soviet Union and further afield. It goes further still, offering valuable insights to the wider IR community about regional fracture as process."—Rick Fawn, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK "Russia Abroad a meaningful contribution to regionalism studies."—E-International Relations Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Margins Matter Anna Ohanyan Part I: Theory of Regional Fracture 1. Theory of Regional Fracture in International Relations: Beyond Russia Anna Ohanyan 2. From Donbass to Damascus: Russia on the Move Robert Nalbandov Part II: Lenin's Revenge: Regional Fracture in the Post-Soviet Space 3. Fractured Eurasian Borderlands: The Case of Ukraine Vsevolod Samokhvalov 4. The South Caucasus: Fracture without End? Laurence Broers 5. Small States and the Large Costs of Regional Fracture: The Case of Armenia Richard Giragosian 6. Central Asia: Fractured Region, Illiberal Regionalism David G. Lewis Part III: Postcolonial Roots of Regional Fracture beyond the Post-Soviet Space 7. Stuck in Between: The Western Balkans as a Fractured Region Dimitar Bechev 8. Syria and the Middle East: Fracture Meets Fracture Mark N. Katz Conclusion: Overcoming Regional Fracture Anna Ohanyan References List of Contributors Index |