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Featuring a special section on “Russian Foreign Policy Towards the 'Near Abroad'”
Issue 5.1 deals with Russia’s post-Maidan foreign policy towards the so-called “near abroad,” or the former Soviet states. This is an important and timely topic, as Russia’s policy perspectives have changed dramatically since 2013/2014, as have those of its neighbors. The Kremlin today is paradoxically following an aggressive “realist” agenda that seeks to clearly delineate its sphere of influence in Europe and Eurasia while simultaneously attempting to promote “soft-power” and a historical-civilizational justification for its recent actions in Ukraine (and elsewhere). The result is an often perplexing amalgam of policy positions that are difficult to disentangle. The contributors to this special issue are all regional specialists based either in Europe or the United States.
Andrey Makarychev is guest professor at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Science at the University of Tartu. His areas of expertise include EU–Russia studies, the EU–Russia common neighborhood, and regionalism in the post-Soviet space. He is coauthor (with Alexandra Yatsyk) of Celebrating Borderlands in a Wider Europe: Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia (Nomos, 2016) and Lotman’s Cultural Semiotics and the Political (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017). His articles appeared in Russian Politics, Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Ethnopolitics, Geopolitics, Slavic Review, Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, and other academic outlets.
Andreas Umland (Edited by)
Andreas Umland (Dr.Phil. FU Berlin, Ph.D. Cambridge) is a Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) in Stockholm and Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future (UIM) in Kyiv, as well as editor of the book series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (ibidem-Verlag, 2004–). His articles have appeared in, among others, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harvard International Review, World Affairs, Survival, Political Studies Review, Perspectives on Politics, European Political Science, Journal of Democracy, Terrorism and Political Violence, European History Quarterly, Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, The Russian Review, Nationalities Papers, East European Jewish Affairs, Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Demokratizatsiya, Internationale Politik, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Osteuropa, Jahrbuch für Ostrecht, Politicheskie issledovaniia, and Voprosy filosofii.
Julie Fedor (Edited by)
Julie Fedor is lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Melbourne. She has taught modern Russian history at the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge, Melbourne, and St Andrews. She is the author of Russia and the Cult of State Security (2011); coauthor of Remembering Katyn (2012); and coeditor of Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe (2013) and Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States (2013).
George Soroka (Edited by)
George Soroka received his PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. He is currently working on a book regarding how contentious historical interpretations function in defining contemporary foreign-policy objectives between Poland, Ukraine, and Russia.
Tomasz Stępniewski (Edited by)
Tomasz Stępniewski is associate professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Affairs, Faculty of Social Sciences, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. He is also coeditor (along with Soroka) of the book Ukraine after Maidan: Revisiting Domestic and Regional Security (Stuttgart: ibidem 2018).
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Special Section: Russia’s Annexation of Crimea I
Guest Editors: Gergana Dimova and Andreas Umland
Legal Loopholes and Judicial Debates: Essays on Russia’s 2014 Annexation of Crimea and Its Consequences for International Law
Gergana Dimova
The Obligation of Non-recognition: The Case of the Annexation of Crimea
Agata Kleczkowska
Russia’s Legal Position on the Annexation of Crimea
Dasha Dubinsky and Peter Rutland
Business as Usual: Sanctions Circumvention by Western Firms in Crimea
Maria Shagina - full text open-access version
https://doi.org/10.24216/97723645330050501_04
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The Return to Patriotic Education in Post-Soviet Russia: How, When, and Why the Russian Military Engaged in Civilian Nation Building
Håvard Bækken
Political Parties and the Institution of Membership in Ukraine
Melanie G. Mierzejewski-Voznyak
Reviews
Kiril Kolev on:
Ognian Shentov, Ruslan Stefanov and Martin Vladimirov, The Russian Economic Grip on Central and Eastern Europe
Ana-Maria Anghelescu on:
Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw, Dictators without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia
Vera Rogova on:
Chris Miller, Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
Elliot Dolan-Evans on:
Marci Shore, The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution
Aleksandra Pomiecko on:
Lawrence Douglas, The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and The Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial
Aija Lulle on:
Irene Kacandes and Yuliya Komska (eds.), Eastern Europe Unmapped: Beyond Borders and Peripheries