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Russia Abroad

Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond
  • ISBN-13: 9781626166202
  • Publisher: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Edited by Anna Ohanyan
  • Price: AUD $116.00
  • Stock: 2 in stock
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  • Local release date: 31/10/2018
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 220 pages Weight: 363g
  • Categories: Regional studies [GTB]
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While we know a great deal about the benefits of regional integration, there is a knowledge gap when it comes to areas with weak, dysfunctional, or nonexistent regional fabric in political and economic life. Further, 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, consolidate dysfunctional ties within the region, and foster weak states. Russia Abroad 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. It argues that the level of regional maturity in Russia's vast vicinities is an important determinant of Russian foreign policy in the emergent multipolar world order. Many of these fractured regions become global security threats because weak states are more likely to be hubs of transnational crime, havens for militants, or sites of protracted 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.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Margins MatterAnna Ohanyan Part I: Theory of Regional Fracture1. Theory of Regional Fracture in International Relations: Beyond RussiaAnna Ohanyan2. From Donbass to Damascus: Russia on the Move Robert Nalbandov Part II: Lenin's Revenge: Regional Fracture in the Post-Soviet Space3. Fractured Eurasian Borderlands: The Case of Ukraine Vsevolod Samokhvalov 4. The South Caucasus: Fracture without End?Laurence Broers 5. Small States and the Large Costs of Regional Fracture: The Case of Armenia Richard Giragosian6. Central Asia: Fractured Region, Illiberal RegionalismDavid G. Lewis Part III: Postcolonial Roots of Regional Fracture beyond the Post-Soviet Space7. Stuck in Between: The Western Balkans as a Fractured Region Dimitar Bechev 8. Syria and the Middle East: Fracture Meets Fracture Mark N. Katz Conclusion: Overcoming Regional Fracture Anna Ohanyan ReferencesList of ContributorsIndex
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