Triangular Diplomacy among the United States, the European Union, and the Russian Federation: Responses to the Crisis in Ukraine

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This book examines the crisis in Ukraine through the lens of “triangular diplomacy,” which focuses on the multiple interactions among the European Union, the United States and Russia. It is explicitly comparative, considering how the US and EU responded to ostensibly the same crisis. It also adopts a “360-degree” perspective, focusing on how the US and EU interacted in their dealings with Russia, and how Russia and Ukraine have responded. Chapters focus on each of the four protagonists – the EU, the US, Russia and Ukraine – and on key, cross-cutting aspects of the crisis – sanctions, international law and energy. The book thus contrasts a conventional, if exceptional, great power – the US – with a very non-traditional foreign policy actor – the EU. It would be suitable for both undergraduate and graduate courses on the EU’s external policies and engagement in world affairs, EU-US relations, EU-Russia interactions, or regional security issues. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introducing Triangular Diplomacy (Alasdair R. Young, Vicki L. Birchfield)....Pages 1-19 Empirical Scene Setting: The Contours of the Crisis and Response (Alasdair R. Young, Vicki L. Birchfield)....Pages 21-54 Outsourced Diplomacy: The Obama Administration and the Ukraine Crisis (Deborah Welch Larson)....Pages 55-76 ‘Crowdfunded Diplomacy’? The EU’s Role in the Triangular Diplomacy Over the Ukraine Crisis (Hiski Haukkala)....Pages 77-94 Democracy and Progressive Modernity in Constructions of Community: Europe, the United States, and the Russian ‘Other’ (Grainne Hutton, Sara Morrell, Jarrod Hayes)....Pages 95-118 Russia Plays the (Triangular) Sanctions Game (Christopher Patane, Cooper Drury)....Pages 119-142 Ukraine and Triangular Diplomacy: Kyiv’s Legitimacy Dilemmas in the Midst of the Crisis (Valentina Feklyunina, Valentyna Romanova)....Pages 143-167 Whose International Law? Legal Clashes in the Ukrainian Crisis (Mikulas Fabry)....Pages 169-188 Triangular Diplomacy and Europe’s Changing Gas Network: From “Trying-Angles” to Stable Marriage (Adam N. Stulberg)....Pages 189-216 Conclusions: Comparison and Triangulation (Vicki L. Birchfield, Alasdair R. Young)....Pages 217-226 Back Matter ....Pages 227-232