Understanding Conflict Between Russia and the EU: The Limits of Integration

by S. Prozorov

Overview

This book the conflicting issues in EU-Russian relations and presents an innovative theory for the understanding of their emergence. Drawing on up-to-date research data, the author argues that conflicts in EU-Russian relations are generated by the clash of principles of state sovereignty and international integration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349545889
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Series:	Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
Edition description:	1st ed. 2006
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

SERGEI PROZOROV received his PhD at the University of Tampere, Finland and is currently Professor of International Relations at Petrozavodsk State University, Russia. He is the author of Political Pedagogy of Technical Assistance (2004).

Table of Contents

Preface     ix
Approaching EU-Russian Conflicts: Beyond Transitionalism and Traditionalism     1
Introduction     1
Cooperation and conflict in the EU Russian strategic partnership     3
Transitionalism/traditionalism: a critique of existing approaches to EU-Russian relations     11
Conflict as a discursive structure: towards an interpretative model of EU-Russian conflict     20
A European Country Outside Europe: EU Enlargement and the Problematic of Exclusion     27
From issue to identity conflict: the 'Schengen curtain' and the oscillations of the problematic of exclusion     27
Out of the united Europe: the liberal criticism of Russia's exclusion     33
Liberation from the 'European myth': left conservatism and the problem of 'false Europe'     38
Conclusion: from exclusion to hierarchical inclusion     43
From Object to Subject: Intersubjectivity and the Problematic of Self-exclusion     46
The lack of strategic intersubjectivity: issue and identity conflicts in the narrative of self-exclusion     46
'Liberal empire': self-exclusion and the strategy of redoubling of Europe     54
Getting over Europe: left conservatism and the demise of the question of 'European identity'     59
Conclusion: beyond the exclusion/inclusion opposition in EU-Russian relations     68
Sovereignty and Integration in EU-Russian Encounters: an Interpretative Model of Conflict Analysis     74
Structural determinants in EU-Russian encounters     74
Interactional determinants in EU-Russian encounters     95
Dissensual Interfaces: Interactional Asymmetries and EU-Russian Conflicts     102
European exclusion of Russia: the problem of visa and passport regimes     102
Russia's self-exclusion from Europe: the problematic of integrated cross-border governance     111
Equivalent Interfaces: the Limits of Integration and the Stability of Sovereignty     128
Cross-border integration and its limits: the case of Euregio Karelia     128
Mutual delimitation: intersubjectivity and sovereign stability     137
The Persistence of Sovereignty: Russia and the EU at the Limit of Integration     157
The paradoxes of integration in EU-Russian relations     157
Toward a common European pluralism: EU-Russian relations and interaction without integration     175
Notes     185
Bibliography     193
Index     208