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Regions in Transition in the Former Soviet Area

Ideas and Institutions in the Making

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Complements the existing scholarship on international and regional organisations that conventionally look at institutional design and policy outputs

  • Discusses the morphogenesis and texture of the post-Soviet region beyond an institutionalist approach to regionalism

  • Studies the post-Soviet region through under-researched case studies, such as Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Introduction

    • Alessandra Russo
    Pages 1-17
  3. Region-Building in the Former Soviet Space

    • Alessandra Russo
    Pages 19-59
  4. The Paradox of Russian Hegemony

    • Alessandra Russo
    Pages 61-81
  5. Post-Soviet States and Post-Soviet Regions

    • Alessandra Russo
    Pages 83-111
  6. Conclusions

    • Alessandra Russo
    Pages 221-228
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 229-232

About this book

This book aims to understand the “texture” of the post-Soviet region, where waves of de-integration and re-integration have been resonating at different times and through diverse manifestations over the last quarter of century. The post-Soviet states have been evolving in an embryonic system of states in their close neighbourhood, whose boundaries and rules of interactions are still in the making. However, one can already detect specific traits of regional governance, one of these being the presence of overlapping organisations and institutions.

It includes reflections on relations between state formation and region formation and a tentative conceptualisation of a post-colonial form of regionalism. The focus on small states, featuring different behaviours vis-à-vis regional organisations and regional imaginaries in their transitional and still unsettled state identities and foreign policy narratives, constitutes a further element of originality. This innovative volume is crucial reading for scholars and researchers of International Relations with a special interest in either the Former Soviet Space or Comparative Regionalism. 

Reviews

“The book offers a novel and well-substantiated argument about the relationship between the state and region-making in the former Soviet space. … the book is an important contribution to the field, in that its focus on co-constitution offers a refreshing prism through which to address the relationship between the state and region-making in the former Soviet space.” (Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 71 (5), 2019)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sciences Po Bordeaux, Centre Emile Durkheim, Pessac, France

    Alessandra Russo

About the author

 

Alessandra Russo is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France. She specializes in the study of regional organisations (with a special focus on the post-Soviet region), critical theories of Security Studies, transnational organized crime and terrorism.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Regions in Transition in the Former Soviet Area

  • Book Subtitle: Ideas and Institutions in the Making

  • Authors: Alessandra Russo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60624-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60623-1Published: 23 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86901-8Published: 30 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60624-8Published: 15 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 232

  • Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political Science and International Relations, general

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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