Russia in the Changing International System

252 Pages·2020·2.54 MB·English

by  Emel Parlar Dal, Emre Erşen

Russia in the
Changing International
System
Edited by
Emel Parlar Dal
Emre Erşen
Russia in the Changing International System
Emel Parlar Dal • Emre Ersen
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Editors
Russia in the
Changing
International System
Editors
Emel Parlar Dal Emre Erşen
Department of International Relations Department of Political Science
Marmara University and International Relations
Istanbul, Turkey Marmara University
Istanbul, Turkey
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ontents
1 Russia and the Changing International System: An
Introduction 1
Emel Parlar Dal and Emre Erşen
2 Stasis and Change: Russia and the Emergence of an
Anti-hegemonic World Order 17
Richard Sakwa
3 Russia’s European Policies in a Post-liberal World 39
Andrey Makarychev
4 Russia as a Regional Actor: Goals and Motivations 59
Jeanne L. Wilson
5 (Mis)interpreting the Eurasian Economic Union? Images
of the EAEU in Russia and the West 77
Alexander Libman
6 Russia and China in Global Governance 95
Marcin Kaczmarski
7 Geopolitical Economy of Russia’s Foreign Policy Duality
in the Eurasian Landmass 113
Emre İşeri and Volkan Özdemir
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8 Russia’s Strategies Towards BRICS: Theory and Practice 133
Alexander Sergunin
9 Ukraine Between Russia and the West: Russian Challenge
to Euro-Atlantic Security 153
Sergii V. Glebov
10 Russia’s Power Politics Towards Ukraine: Social Status
Concerns and the Role of Emotions 169
Regina Heller
11 Russia’s New Policy Towards Aspiring Political
Movements and Unrecognized States 187
Victor Jeifets and Nikolay Dobronravin
12 Russia’s “Modern” Foreign Policy Tools in Crimea and
Syria 205
Philipp Casula
13 Assessing Russia’s Middle East Policy After the Arab
Uprisings: Prospects and Limitations 225
Alexey Khlebnikov
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otes on ontributors
Philipp Casula holds a PhD in sociology from University of Basel,
Switzerland. In his thesis he analysed the domestic politics of contempo-
rary Russia in terms of hegemony and populism. His research interests
include the cultural history of post-colonial Russia, especially the relations
of the USSR with the Middle East and their cultural representation in the
Soviet media and academia. He is also interested in contemporary populism
and nationalism in Europe.
Nikolay  Dobronravin is a professor at the School of International
Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. His research interests
include world politics and African and Islamic studies. He has published
extensively on West Africa, boundary studies and energy policy. His chap-
ters entitled “Oil, Gas, and Modernization of Global South: African
Lessons for Post-Soviet States” and “Oil, Gas, Transit and Boundaries:
Problems of the Transport Curse” were included in Vladimir Gel’man
and Otar Marganiya (eds.), Resource Curse and Post-Soviet Eurasia: Oil,
Gas, and Modernization (2010). He also wrote a chapter for From
Bi-polar to Multipolar World: The Latin American Vector of International
Relations (2018).
Emre Erşen is an associate professor at Marmara University’s Department
of Political Science and International Relations in Istanbul, Turkey. He
received his PhD from the same department. He conducted research at
the Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Institute for Human
Sciences (Vienna, Austria), University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) and
Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) as a visiting scholar. He has
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written for a number of academic publications including Geopolitics,
Turkish Studies, Energy Policy, Insight Turkey, Journal of Eurasian Studies
and Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs. He has also contributed
many conference papers and book chapters on Turkish-Russian relations,
Eurasianism and Turkish geopolitics. He is the co-editor of Turkey’s Pivot
to Eurasia: Geopolitics and Foreign Policy in a Changing World Order
(2019, with Seçkin Köstem).
Sergii  V.  Glebov is an associate professor at the Department of
International Relations, leading research fellow at the Centre for
International Studies and Dean of the School of International Relations at
the Institute of Social Sciences, Odessa Mechnikov National University
(ONU). He received his PhD in 2002. In 2000/2001, he was a visiting
scholar at the Centre for European Studies, University of Exeter, UK, and
at Columbia University, Harriman Institute, New York City, USA, in
2003. He received several individual and institutional fellowships,
including from HESP/AFP Open Society Institute (Budapest,
Hungary), Carnegie Foundation and Jean Monnet Program. His
research interests include foreign and security policy of Ukraine,
international relations in the Black Sea-Caspian region, European
and Euro-Atlantic security, Russian foreign policy and Ukraine’s
relations with NATO and EU.
Regina Heller is a senior researcher at the Institute for Peace Research
and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH). She studied
Political Science and East Slavic Studies at the University of Mainz,
Middlebury College, VT/USA, and University of Hamburg. After her
exam in Hamburg, she worked as a project manager at the Conflict
Prevention Network (CPN) at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in
Ebenhausen and Berlin; as a coordinator of the research project
“International Risk Policy” at the Center for Transatlantic Foreign
and Security Policy at the Free University Berlin; and as the project
manager of the “German-American-Russian Dialogue” at the Aspen
Institute Berlin. In 2006, she received her PhD from Hamburg
University on the topic of human rights and norm socialization in
Russia. Since 2008, she is a member of the scientific advisory council
of the Cologne Forum for International Relations and Security
Policy. Throughout the academic year 2014/2015, she held a substi-
tute professorship for International Relations at the Helmut Schmidt
University Hamburg and University of the German Armed Forces.
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Emre Iṡ ̧eri is a professor and chair of the Department of International
Relations at Yaşar University, Iż mir, where he teaches Introduction to
International Political Economy, Energy Politics, American Foreign
Policy, Middle Eastern Politics and Turkish Foreign Policy. He received
his PhD in international relations from Keele University, UK. His research
interests include energy politics, political communication, Eurasian/
Middle Eastern politics and Turkish foreign policy. His publications have
appeared in various books as well as academic journals including Geopolitics,
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (JBNES), Turkish Studies,
Energy Policy, Security Journal, South European Society and Politics (SESP),
European Journal of Communication, Environment and Planning C:
Politics and Space and Alternatives: Global, Local, Political.
Victor Jeifets is a professor at the School of International Relations, St.
Petersburg State University, Russia, and director of the Center for
Iberoamerican Studies at the same university. His research interests include
international relations and communist studies. He has published exten-
sively on Russian foreign policy as well as Latin American history and poli-
tics. His recent publications include América Latina en la Internacional
Comunista, 1919–1943 (Santiago: Ariadna Editores, 2015, 2018); El
Partido Comunista de Argentina y la III Internacional (Mexico:
Nostromo, 2013); “Reflexiones sobre el centenario de la partici-
pación rusa en la Primera Guerra Mundial: entre el olvido histórico y
los mitos modernos,” Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de
Cultura 42, no. 2 (2015): 177–201; “Rusia, Ukrania y los países del
Oeste: en vísperas de la Paz Fría,” Patria: Análisis Político de la Defensa
2 (2014): 70–86, and “Russia and Latin America: Renewal Versus
Continuity,” Portuguese Journal of Social Science 17, no. 2 (2018):
213–228. He also edited a book entitled From Bi-polar to Multipolar
World: The Latin American Vector of International Relations (2018).
Marcin Kaczmarski (PhD) is a lecturer at the School of Social & Political
Sciences in University of Glasgow. Prior to joining the University of
Glasgow, he was a visiting scholar at the Chengchi University in Taiwan,
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center in Japan, Aleksanteri Institute in Finland
and Kennan Institute in Washington, DC. He combined research and
teaching with policy-oriented analysis for the Finnish Institute of
International Affairs in Helsinki and Centre for Eastern Studies in
Warsaw. His research focuses on Russia-China relations, comparative