Titlebook: Russia, Eurasia and the New Geopolitics of Energy; Confrontation and Co Matthew Sussex (Head of Politics and International Book 2015 The Ed

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Introduction: Russia, Eurasia and the New Geopolitics of Energyhigh for healing of the divisions that had characterized Europe for most of the prior century. Former Soviet President Gorbachev had called for a ‘common European home’ (Gorbachev, 1989); US President George H.W. Bush spoke of a ‘new world order’ in which disagreements among states would be resolved

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From Retrenchment to Revanchism … and Back Again? Russian Grand Strategy in the Eurasian ‘Heartland’anderthal in a globalized world. And yet both the gradual and more rapid return to prominence of various actors in international politics highlight the ongoing significance of traditional factors linked to material considerations, especially territoriality. The same type of sanctimonious cant — that

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Is Russia’s Foreign Policy ‘Schizophrenic’e. This could potentially have a direct negative effect on the ruling elites and on the overall economic situation inside Russia, with the potential flight of capital and a threat to Russia’s relations with its energy consumer states in the European Union. The question arises, therefore: what stands

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Foreign Policy Preferences of Russia’s Energy Sector: A Shift to Asia?s of the Kremlin’s shift eastward go as far back as 1997 when the US made, as a leading Soviet specialist George Kennan put it, a ‘fateful error’ by making a decision to enlarge NATO (Kennan, 1997). . At that time Russia’s move to the East was a rather symbolic gesture that resulted in both building

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Authoritarianism, Energy and Ideas in Central Asia: From Politics and Pipelines to Foreign Policyot to mention the fact that there are extensive great power interests in the region. This chapter explores why this is the case. Here, one common argument is that an inside–outside dynamic has been produced within Central Asian states. In this context, norm cascades reinforce authoritarian politics,