Russia and Europe: Building Bridges, Digging Trenches

305 Pages·2014·2.945 MB·English

by  Kjell Engelbrekt, Bertil Nygren

Russia and Europe

Russia–Europepoliticalrelationshavealwaysbeenproblematic,andoneofthe
mainreasonsforthisisthetwosides’differentperspectivesoneventheverybasic
notionsandconceptsofpoliticallife.Withaworldwiderecession,theproblems
as well as opportunities in Russia–Europe relations are magnified. While most
works on Russia–Europe, Russia–America and Russia–West relations focus on
currentpoliciesandexplainthemfromastandardsetofexplanatoryvariables,this
bookpenetratesdeeperintothestructuralandideationaldifferencesthattendto
bringaboutmisperceptions,miscalculations,misinterpretationsandmisdeedsin
thistwo-directionalrelationship.Itappliesaverybroadconceptualframeworkto
analysedifferencesthatareasrelevantforEuropeandtheEUasitistoRussia’s
immediate neighbours and, while doing so, identifies the key factors that will
dominateRussia–EUtiesinthenextdecade.
KjellEngelbrektandBertilNygrenareAssociateProfessorsofPoliticalScience
at the Swedish National Defence College and at the Department of Political
Science,StockholmUniversity,Sweden.
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Buildingbridges,diggingtrenches
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Russia and Europe
Building bridges, digging trenches

Edited by
Kjell Engelbrekt
and Bertil Nygren
Firstpublished2010
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Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
1.Russia(Federation)–Foreignrelations–Europe.
2.Europe–Foreignrelations–Russia(Federation)3.Political
culture–Russia(Federation)4.Politicalculture–Europe.
5.Russia(Federation)–Politicsandgovernment–1991-6.Europe–Politics
andgovernment–1989-I.Nygren,Bertil.II.Title.
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Contents

Contributors ix
Preface x
Acknowledgements xvi
1 AreassertiveRussiaandanexpandedEuropeanUnion 1
KJELL ENGELBREKT AND BERTIL NYGREN
PART1
Norms,values,andinstitutions 17
2 RussiaandEuropeaftertheColdWar:culturalconvergence
orcivilizationalclash? 19
RUSSELL BOVA
3 Perceptionsofdemocracyanddemocratic
institution-building–electoraldemocracytheRussianway 39
BERTIL NYGREN
4 ThetheoryandpracticeofreciprocityinEU–Russiarelations 60
TATIANA ROMANOVA
5 BeyondtheparadigmofintegrationinEU–Russiarelations:
sovereigntyandthepoliticsofresentment 81
SERGEI PROZOROV
viii Contents
PART2
Moscow,Brusselsandthebigthree 101
6 Thereturnofhistory:hardsecurityissuesinthe
Russia–Europerelationship 103
YURI E. FEDOROV
7 Russia–EUrelations:theeconomicdimension 132
BORIS FRUMKIN

8 Germany–Russiarelations,1992–2009 156
ANGELA STENT
9 RussiaandtheEuropeangreatpowers:France 167
ISABELLE FACON
PART3
‘In-Between-Europe’ 185
10 EuropeanenergypolicymeetsRussianbilateralism:thecase
ofSoutheasternEurope 187
KJELL ENGELBREKT AND ILIAN VASSILEV
11 Ukraine’semergingdemocracyandtheRussianfactor 207
PETRO BURKOVSKY AND OLEXIY HARAN
12 Ridingthreehorses:Moldova’senduringidentityasastrategy
forsurvival 230
PATRICIA FOGARTY
13 Conclusionsandoutlook 249
KJELL ENGELBREKT AND BERTIL NYGREN
Primarysources 256
Secondarysources 267
Index 281
Contributors

Russell Bova is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Dickinson
College,Carlisle,PA,USA.
PetroBurkovskyisChiefanalystattheNationalInstituteforStrategicStudiesKyiv.
KjellEngelbrektisAssociateProfessorattheDepartmentofPoliticalScience,Stockholm
University,andtheSwedishNationalDefenseCollege.
Isabelle Facon is Senior Research Fellow at Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique,
Paris.
YuriE.FedorovisAssociateFellow,RussiaandEurasiaProgram,TheRoyalInstituteof
InternationalAffairs(ChathamHouse),London.
PatriciaFogartyisananthropologistatEmoryUniversity,Atlanta,Georgia,USA.
BorisFrumkinisAssociateProfessorofEconomicsattheDepartmentofInternational
Relations of Moscow State Institute of International Relations and at the European
Studies Institute of MGIMO and Head of Department at the Institute of Economics
RussianAcademyofScience,Moscow.
Olexiy Haran is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Kyiv-Mohyla
Academy(UKMA)andFoundingDirectoroftheUKMASchoolforPolicyAnalysis,
Kyiv.
BertilNygrenisAssociateProfessorofPoliticalScienceattheDepartmentofPolitical
Science,StockholmUniversity,andtheSwedishNationalDefenceCollege,Stockholm.
Sergei Prozorov is a research fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies,
Helsinki.
Tatiana Romanova is Associate Professor at the School of International Relations of
St.PetersburgStateUniversity,St.Petersburg.
AngelaStentisProfessorofGovernmentandDirectoroftheCenterforEurasian,Russian
and East European Studies in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service,
WashingtonDC.
IlianVassilevisformerAmbassadorofBulgariatotheRussianFederation(2000–2006)
andconsultant,Sofia.