$Russia abroad : driving regional fracture in post-Communist Eurasia and beyond /$

Russia abroad : driving regional fracture in post-Communist Eurasia and beyond /

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Imprint:	Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2018]
Description:	viii, 220 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Regionalism. Geopolitics. Diplomatic relations. Geopolitics. Regionalism. Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations. Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- Former Soviet republics. Former Soviet republics -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation) Russia (Federation) Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11716670

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Other authors / contributors:	Ohanyan, Anna, editor.
ISBN:	9781626166202 162616620X 9781626166196 1626166196
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	While we know a great deal about the benefits of regional integration, there is a knowledge gap when it comes to areas with weak or nonexistent regional fabric in political and economic life. Furthermore, 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, stay isolated, and foster weak states. This volume 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. Some fractured regions become global security threats because weak states are more likely to be hubs of transnational crime, havens for militants, or sites of 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.
Other form:	Online version: Russia abroad. Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2018 9781626166219

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Margins Matter
Part I. Theory of Regional Fracture
1. Theory of Regional Fracture in International Relations: Beyond Russia
2. From Donbass to Damascus: Russia on the Move
Part II. Lenin's Revenge: Regional Fracture in the Post-Soviet Space
3. Fractured Eurasian Borderlands: The Case of Ukraine
4. The South Caucasus: Fracture without End?
5. Small States and the Large Costs of Regional Fracture: The Case of Armenia
6. Central Asia: Fractured Region, Illiberal Regionalism
Part III. Postcolonial Roots of Regional Fracture Beyond the Post-Soviet Space
7. Stuck in Between: The Western Balkans as a Fractured Region
8. Syria and the Middle East: Fracture Meets Fracture
Conclusion: Overcoming Regional Fracture
References
List of Contributors
Index