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Russia in the Changing International System Edited by Emel Parlar Dal Emre Erşen Russia in the Changing International System Emel Parlar Dal • Emre Ersen ̧ 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 ISBN 978-3-030-21831-7 ISBN 978-3-030-21832-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21832-4 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland A cknowledgments We would like to thank the editorial staff of the Rising Powers Quarterly journal for their valuable support and assistance. v c 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 vii viii CONTENTS 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 n c otes on ontributors Philipp Casula holds a PhD in sociology from University of Basel, Switzerland. In his thesis he analysed the domestic politics of contemporary 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 chapters 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 ix x NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 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. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xi 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 extensively on Russian foreign policy as well as Latin American history and politics. 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