Vocabularies of International Relations after the Crisis in Ukraine

185 Pages·2016·2.354 MB·English

by  Andrey Makarychev (editor), Alexandra Yatsyk (editor)

Vocabularies of International Relations
after the Crisis in Ukraine
The conflict in Ukraine and Russia’s annexation of Crimea has undoubtedly
been a pivotal moment for policy makers and military planners in Europe
and beyond. Many analysts see an unexpected character in the conflict and
expect negative reverberations and a long-lasting period of turbulence and
uncertainty, the de-legitimation of international institutions and a declining
role forglobal norms and rules. Did these events bring substantial correctives
and modifications to the extant conceptualization of international relations?
Does the conflict significantly alter previous assumptions and foster a new
academicvocabulary,or,doesitconfirmthevalidityofwell-establishedschools
of thought in international relations? Has the crisis in Ukraine confirmed the
vitality and academic vigour of conventional concepts?
These questions are the starting points for this book covering conceptualiza-
tions from rationalist to reflectivist, and from quantitative to qualitative. Most
contributorsagreethatmanyoftheoldconcepts,suchasmulti-polarity, spheres
of influence, sovereignty, or even containment, are still cognitively valid, yet
believetheeruption ofthecrisismeans thattheyarenowusedindifferentcon-
texts and thus infused with different meanings. It is these multiple, conceptual
languages that the volume puts at the centre of its analysis.
Thistextwillbeofgreatinteresttostudentsandscholarsstudyinginternational
relations,politics,andRussianandUkrainianstudies.
Andrey Makarychev is Guest Professor at the Johan Skytte Institute of Poli-
tical Science, Universityof Tartu,Estonia. He has published many books and
research articles on avarietyof topics related to Russian foreign policy.
Alexandra Yatsyk is Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Russian and Eur-
asian Studies, University of Uppsala, Sweden, and Head of the Centre for
Cultural Studies of Post-Socialism, Kazan Federal University, Russia.
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Vocabularies of International
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Ukraine
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Contents
List of contributors vii
Introduction 1
ANDREYMAKARYCHEVANDALEXANDRAYATSYK
1 ‘There are more important things than where the border runs’:
the other side of George Kennan’s containment theory 6
ALEXANDERASTROV
2 The crisis of spheres of influence in the EU–Russia relationship 19
IAINANDREWFERGUSON
3 Borderline strategies: calibrated territorial expansionism in the
game theory searchlight 35
MIKHAILALEXSEEV
4 From ‘colony’to ‘failing state’?: Ukrainian sovereignty in the
gaze of Russian foreign policy discourses 54
ALIAKSEIKAZHARSKI
5 Reconsidering westernconceptsofthe Ukrainianconflict: therise
to prominence of Russia’s ‘soft force’ policy 70
STEPHENG.F.HALL
6 Rising powers in the contemporary world: sources of
sustainability 90
IRINABUSYGINA
7 Governmentality beyond the West: (post)political machineries in
Ukraine and Russia 111
ALEXANDRAYATSYK
vi Contents
8 Managing national ressentiment: morality politics in
Putin’s Russia 130
GULNAZSHARAFUTDINOVA
9 Stabilizing dispersed identities, or why politics defines
EU–Russia disconnections 152
ANDREYMAKARYCHEV
Index 173
Contributors
Mikhail Alexseev is Professor of Political Science at the San Diego State
University, USA. He is an internationally recognized authority on threat
assessment in interstate and internal wars, ethnic relations, immigration atti-
tudes,andnationalism,withafocusonEurasia.HeistheauthorofImmigra-
tionPhobia and theSecurity Dilemma: Russia,Europe, and theUnited States
(Cambridge, 2006) and Without Warning: Threat Assessment, Intelligence,
and Global Struggle (St. Martin’s/Macmillan, 1997) and is the editor of A
Federation Imperiled: Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia (St.
Martin’s/Macmillan, 1999). His research has been published in Political
Science Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Political Behavior, Political
Communication, Social Science Quarterly, Post-Soviet Studies, Europe-Asia
Studies, Geopolitics and other journals.
Alexander Astrov is Associate Professor at the International Relations
Department of Central European University (Budapest, Hungary). He is
the authorof On World Politics: R.G. Collingwood, Michael Oakeshott and
NeotraditionalisminInternationalRelations(Palgrave,2005)andSelf-founded
Community: Minority Politics or Minor Politics? (Tallinn University Press,
2007) and the editorof The Great Power (mis)Management: The Russian–
Georgian War and its Implications for Global Political Order (Ashgate
Publishing, 2011). His interests include international relations theory,
political theory and history of ideas.
Irina Busygina is Professorof Comparative Politics at Moscow State Institute
of International Relations, Russia. She also heads the Centre for Regional
PoliticalStudies.SheworksandpublishesonRussia–EUrelations,European
integration, comparative federalism, regional development in Russia and
Europe. She is also engaged in expert work at the Russian International
Affairs Council and at the Committee of Civil Initiatives. Her most recent
publicationsincludethePoliticalModernizationoftheStateinRussia(2012,
Liberal Mission Foundation), and The Calculus of Non-Protest in Russia:
Redistributive Expectations from Political Reforms (2015, co-authored with
Mikhail Filippov, Europe-Asia Studies).
viii Contributors
Iain A. Ferguson is Assistant Professorof Political Science at both the Higher
SchoolofEconomicsandtheRussianPresidentialAcademyinSt.Petersburg,
Russia. He researches and teaches International Relations, with a particular
focusontheintersectionofsecuritystudiesandinternationalpoliticaltheory.
His publications include research reports for the Organization for Security
andCo-operationinEuropeandtheWorldBank.Healsohasseveralarticles
with the global politics magazine and discussion forum, openDemocracy.
net, where he worked as a commissioning editor for three years. Currently
he isworking ontwo publishing projects. Thefirst isa monographbased on
hisPhDthesis,TheEU–RussiaRelationship:AnInternationalAssociationof
Sweet Enemies (2013, Universityof St. Andrews). The second is a co-edited
specialissueforthejournalGeopoliticsonspheresofinfluence.
StephenG.F.HallhasstudiedattheUniversityofPortsmouth,UK,Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, University of Birmingham at the Centre for
Russian and Eurasian Studies and University College London, UK, where
he is currentlydoing his PhD at the School of Slavonic and East European
Studies. His research interests focus on authoritarianism, learning, demo-
cratization, electoral systems and soft power in Belarus, Moldova, Russia
and Ukraine. He is currently in close collaboration with the Ostrogorski
Centre and Belarus Digest, London. He is also a regular contributor to a
number of blogs and articles on aspects of authoritarian learning in the
Europe–Asia Studies and East European Politics.
Aliaksei Kazharski is Lecturer and Researcher at the Faculty of Social and
EconomicSciencesofComeniusUniversityinBratislavaandattheBratislava
International School of Liberal Arts (BISLA). He has previously been a
visiting researcher at the ARENA-Center for European Studies (University
ofOslo),CentreforEU–RussiaStudies(UniversityofTartu)andtheInstitute
forHumanSciencesinVienna.Kazharski’sPhDdissertation(2015)examined
Russian Practices of Identity Construction through Regionalist Discourses,
reproduced bymembers ofRussia’spoliticaland intellectualestablishment.
His primary research interests currently include constructivist approaches
toworldpolitics,regionalismandregionbuilding,andinternationalrelations
in Central and Eastern Europe.
Andrey Makarychev is Guest Professor of Politics and Governance at the
University of Tartu, Estonia. He has published widely on a variety of
topics related to Russian foreign policy, including a co-edited volume with
Routledge (2014) a monograph with Routledge (2014) and Columbia
University Press (2014), book chapters in edited volumes with Palgrave
Macmillan, Ashgate, Wiley Blackwell and other publishers, and research
articles in major peer-reviewed international journals such as Problems of
Post-Communism, Journal of International Relations and Development,
Europe-AsiaStudies,JournalofEurasianStudies,Demokratizatsiya,European
Urban and Regional Studies and others.
Contributors ix
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova is Senior Lecturer in the Russia Institute at King’s
College London, UK. Sharafudinova was an Associate Professor and
Associate of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at
MiamiUniversity,USA.SheistheauthorofPoliticalConsequencesofCrony
Capitalism Inside Russia (Notre Dame University Press, 2010) and editorof
Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–1985 (Lexington Press,
2012). She is an expert on federalism and sub-national politics in Russia
and has published articles in Comparative Politics, Publius: The Journal of
Federalism, Problems of Post-Communism, Europe-Asia Studies, and other
journals.
AlexandraYatsykisVisitingResearcherattheCentreforRussianandEurasian
Studies(UniversityofUppsala,Sweden)andHeadoftheCentreforCultural
Studies of Post-Socialism (Kazan Federal University, Russia). She has also
worked as a lecturer and a visiting researcher at the School of Language,
TranslationandLiteratureStudies(UniversityofTampere,Finland),atthe
Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington
University, USA), the Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe
(Lviv, Ukraine), the Centre for EU–Russia Studies (University of Tartu,
Estonia). Her research interests include representations of post-Soviet
national identities, sports and cultural mega-events, Russia’s protest art,
and biopolitics. She is a co-editor of a special issue of Sport in Society
(2015) and the author of several book chapters and articles, including for
PalgraveMacmillan,Nomos,EuropeanUrbanandRegionalStudies,Problems
ofPost-Communism,International Spectator, and Digital Icons.