EU and Russian Hegemony in the 'Shared Neighbourhood'

This open access book examines the EU’s and Russia’s policies in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus through the prism of hegemony, a concept that it applies to both regional actors. The study cross fertilises the literatures on the EU neighbourhood policy, Russia’s foreign policy, and the scholar...

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Hovedforfatter: Burmester, Isabell
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description This open access book examines the EU’s and Russia’s policies in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus through the prism of hegemony, a concept that it applies to both regional actors. The study cross fertilises the literatures on the EU neighbourhood policy, Russia’s foreign policy, and the scholarship on power in international relations to arrive at an innovative conceptualisation of the mechanisms of hegemonic power. The comparative lens of the analysis leads to novel findings that advance our understanding of the EU’s and Russia’s behaviour in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood. In this book, the existing, separate theorisations are subsumed under more generic terms and concepts, thereby rendering EU and Russian modes of influence comparable for empirical analysis. The comprehensive conceptual framework of hegemonic power in shared neighbourhoods is based on three ideal typical mechanisms of hegemonic influence: coercion, prescription, and co-optation. To understand the nature of EU and Russian hegemony in the region, the uses of the three mechanisms by Russia and the EU towards two neighbourhood countries are compared. The focus is laid on EU and Russian actions towards Moldova and Armenia since the beginning of the 2000s and the local perceptions of these actions. Thus, the comparative case study provides insights into the longer developments in this regional order that led to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The book is intended for scholars and students interested in understanding the broader context of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Because of its contribution to the debate on regional powers in shared neighbourhoods, it is particularly useful for researchers analysing the (changing) power dynamics and hegemonic behaviour in this regional order. Furthermore, it offers other scholars an analytical framework to work with when analysing the policies of different regional powers.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1574572025-07-30T09:00:00Z EU and Russian Hegemony in the 'Shared Neighbourhood' Burmester, Isabell European Union Politics Hegemony Power European Neighbourhood Policy Russia Eastern Partnership Eurasia Eastern Europe Eurasian Economic Union Moldova Armenia Regional orders Shared neighbourhoods Regional power Regional competition thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations This open access book examines the EU’s and Russia’s policies in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus through the prism of hegemony, a concept that it applies to both regional actors. The study cross fertilises the literatures on the EU neighbourhood policy, Russia’s foreign policy, and the scholarship on power in international relations to arrive at an innovative conceptualisation of the mechanisms of hegemonic power. The comparative lens of the analysis leads to novel findings that advance our understanding of the EU’s and Russia’s behaviour in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood. In this book, the existing, separate theorisations are subsumed under more generic terms and concepts, thereby rendering EU and Russian modes of influence comparable for empirical analysis. The comprehensive conceptual framework of hegemonic power in shared neighbourhoods is based on three ideal typical mechanisms of hegemonic influence: coercion, prescription, and co-optation. To understand the nature of EU and Russian hegemony in the region, the uses of the three mechanisms by Russia and the EU towards two neighbourhood countries are compared. The focus is laid on EU and Russian actions towards Moldova and Armenia since the beginning of the 2000s and the local perceptions of these actions. Thus, the comparative case study provides insights into the longer developments in this regional order that led to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The book is intended for scholars and students interested in understanding the broader context of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Because of its contribution to the debate on regional powers in shared neighbourhoods, it is particularly useful for researchers analysing the (changing) power dynamics and hegemonic behaviour in this regional order. Furthermore, it offers other scholars an analytical framework to work with when analysing the policies of different regional powers. 2025-03-16T03:33:52Z 2025-03-16T03:33:52Z 2025-03-13T10:11:27Z 2024 book ONIX_20250313_9783031754883_46 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/99925 9783031754883 9783031754876 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/157457 eng The European Union in International Affairs open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/99925/1/9783031754883.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-75488-3 10.1007/978-3-031-75488-3 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 4bb461ae-a887-4564-b3a7-29e6d7e08318 27f45aa9-a555-4ad6-8769-b9731ccbd883 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 9783031754883 9783031754876 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Palgrave Macmillan 236 Cham [...] [...] Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung ror.org/00yjd3n13 open access
spellingShingle European Union Politics
Hegemony
Power
European Neighbourhood Policy
Russia
Eastern Partnership
Eurasia
Eastern Europe
Eurasian Economic Union
Moldova
Armenia
Regional orders
Shared neighbourhoods
Regional power
Regional competition
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations
Burmester, Isabell
EU and Russian Hegemony in the 'Shared Neighbourhood'
title EU and Russian Hegemony in the 'Shared Neighbourhood'
title_full EU and Russian Hegemony in the 'Shared Neighbourhood'
title_fullStr EU and Russian Hegemony in the 'Shared Neighbourhood'
title_full_unstemmed EU and Russian Hegemony in the 'Shared Neighbourhood'
title_short EU and Russian Hegemony in the 'Shared Neighbourhood'
title_sort eu and russian hegemony in the shared neighbourhood
topic European Union Politics
Hegemony
Power
European Neighbourhood Policy
Russia
Eastern Partnership
Eurasia
Eastern Europe
Eurasian Economic Union
Moldova
Armenia
Regional orders
Shared neighbourhoods
Regional power
Regional competition
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations
topic_facet European Union Politics
Hegemony
Power
European Neighbourhood Policy
Russia
Eastern Partnership
Eurasia
Eastern Europe
Eurasian Economic Union
Moldova
Armenia
Regional orders
Shared neighbourhoods
Regional power
Regional competition
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations
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