Overview
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)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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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.
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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