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Russia's European Choice

By Ted Hopf

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2008
ISBN
0230605869, 9780230605862
LCC
HC240.25.R8 R89 2008
Open Library ID
OL10194882M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1221287 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
275\275
Topic
Geography Russia
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Russia has never been able to escape its relationship with Europe, or Europe with Russia. Geography and history have conspired to make them both neighbors and unavoidable factors in each other’s daily lives. From the early 1700s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Europe and Moscow both relied on material power to balance against any threats emerging from East and West. More recently, Europe and the EU have adopted a different strategy: make Russia non-threatening by making it European, like “us.” Meanwhile, Russia’s resistance to Europe’s assimilationist mission is increasingly robust, fuelled by energy exports to Europe and the world. Contributors to this volume wrestle with the question of whether the European project is feasible, desirable, or even ethical.

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