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Recent events in Ukraine and Russia and the subsequent incorporation of Crimea into the Russian state, with the support of some circles of inhabitants of the peninsula, have shown that the desire of people to belong to the Western part of Europe should not automatically be assumed. Discussing different perceptions of the Ukrainian-Russian war in neighbouring countries, this book offers an analysis of the conflicts and issues connected with the shifting of the border regions of Russia and Ukraine to show how ’material’ and ’psychological’ borders are never completely stable ideas. The contributors – historians, sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists from across Europe – use an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to explore the different national and transnational perceptions of a possible future role for Russia.

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Author:   Gerhard Besier (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) ,  Katarzyna Stoklosa (University of Sønderborg)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781472484949

ISBN 10:   1472484940
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   17 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors List of abbreviations 1 Introduction Gerhard Besier and Katarzyna Stokłosa 2 European Union conflict transformation as cross-border co-operation: potential and limits Cathal McCall 3 Reconceptualizing European neighbourhood beyond geopolitics: observations on eastern partnership James Wesley Scott Part I Russia and Ukraine: an ambivalent neighbourhood 4 Russian perceptions of the Ukrainian crisis: from confrontation to damage limitation? Alexander Sergunin 5 A squeezed country: Ukraine between Europe and Eurasia Mikhail A. Molchanov Part II Russian borders in the light of the crisis 6 Shifting borders: unpredictability and strategic distrust at the Finnish–Russian border Jussi Laine 7 Russia–EU borderlands after the Ukraine crisis: the case of Narva Andrey Makarychev And Alexandra Yatsyk 8 Invested in Ukraine: the struggle of Lithuania against Russia over the future of Europe Dovilė Jakniūnaitė 9 Fearing the worst: a Latvian view on Russia and the conflict in Ukraine Ilvija BruĢe and Kārlis Bukovskis 10 T he return of geopolitics: Georgia in the shadow of Russian–Ukrainian conflict Kornely Kakachia 11 Having deja vu: the perception of the Ukrainian crisis in the Republic of Moldova Corneliu Pintilescu and Onoriu Colăcel 12 Ukraine and Russia in crisis: a Polish view Katarzyna Stokłosa 13 T he Caspian States’ perception of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia Justyna Misiągiewicz Part III Ukrainian–Russian conflict: world views, belief systems and ideologies as sources and instruments 14 Sources of popular support and opposition to the Putin regime Cameron Ross 15 Expanding religious borders? The new influence of some old state churches: the Russian Orthodoxy Gerhard Besier 16 Ukraine: historical notes on reunification of the Russian lands Jukka Korpela Index of persons Index of places

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Gerhard Besier is currently Director of the Sigmund Neumann Institute (Berlin, Dresden, Flensburg) and teaches at Stanford University, USA. Katarzyna Stokłosa is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Management, Centre for Border Region Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

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