Russia's European agenda and the Baltic States /
Author / Creator: | Šleivytė, Janina. |
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Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series ; 19 Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series ; 19. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12011880 |
Summary: | Russian foreign policy has become an increasing concern in 21st century, together with Russia's relations with its former Soviet neighbours - but its relations with the Baltic States are particularly sensitive, given the Baltic membership of NATO and the EU and Russia's increasingly fractious relations with those institutions. This book discusses the development of Russia's approach to the new security architecture in Europe and assesses the prospects for a more active engagement of Russia in the Baltic Sea region and Europe as a whole. The book considers the full range of issues affecting security, including energy, economic relations; the special position of Russia's Kaliningrad enclave; and Russia's special interest in the Russian minorities in the former Soviet Baltic states. The evolution of Russian-Baltic relations from 1990-2008 is set in the more general context of Russia's European agenda, looking into the role and place of the Baltic States in this agenda. It provides a comparative analysis of the European agenda in of Russia's foreign policy under Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, and concludes that, despite the replacement of the former Cold War stand-off with a more positive climate and a complicated array of bilateral and multilateral contacts much more still needs to be done to engage Russia fully with the new Europe |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780203861837 0203861833 9780415554008 0415554004 9781135181062 1135181063 9781135181109 1135181101 9781135181116 113518111X 9781138985599 1138985597 9786612974533 6612974532 |