Russia abroad : driving regional fracture in post-Communist Eurasia and beyond / Anna Ohanyan, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ohanyan, Anna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations.

Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations--Former Soviet republics.

Former Soviet republics--Foreign relations--Russia (Federation).

Former Soviet republics.

Regionalism.

Geopolitics.

Diplomatic relations.

Soviet Union--Former Soviet republics.

Physical Description:

viii, 220 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2018.

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 or nonexistent regional fabric in political and economic life. Furthermore, 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, stay isolated, and foster weak states. This volume 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. Some fractured regions become global security threats because weak states are more likely to be hubs of transnational crime, havens for militants, or sites of 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.

Contents:

Theory of regional fracture

Theory of regional fracture in international relations / Anna Ohanyan

From Donbass to Damascus : Russia on the move / Robert Nalbandov

Lenin's revenge : regional fracture in the post-Soviet space

Fractured Eurasian borderlands : the case of Ukraine / Vsevolod Samokhvalov

The South Caucasus : fracture without end? / Laurence Broers

Small states and the large costs of regional fracture : the case of Armenia / Richard Giragosian

Central Asia : fractured region, illiberal regionalism / David Lewis

Post-colonial roots of regional fracture beyond the former Soviet Union

Stuck in between : the Western Balkans as a fractured region / Dimitar Bechev

Syria and the Middle East : fracture meets fracture / Mark Katz

Conclusion : overcoming regional fracture / Anna Ohanyan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Russia abroad.

ISBN:

9781626166202

162616620X

9781626166196

1626166196

OCLC:

1036734079