The European Union, Russia and the Shared Neighbourhood
The conflict in South Ossetia in the summer of 2008 and the Ukrainian energy crisis in early 2009 served to highlight the tensions that continue to influence EU-Russia relations in regard to the region comprising the former republics of the Soviet Union or the shared neighbourhood.
This book draws together research which examines the objectives of EU and Russian foreign policy and the complexities of the security challenges in this region. Although both actors have a shared interest in co-operating to create conditions of peace and stability, we have in recent years observed the development of growing competition between the EU and Russian foreign policy agendas.
This book was based on a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.
Jackie Gower is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of War Studies, Kings College London and a Coordinator of the BASEES-UACES EU-Russia Research Network. Her most recent publications include EU Member States in Central Asia, in Alexander Warkotsch (ed.), The European Union and Central Asia (Routledge, 2010) and Russia and Europe in the Twenty-First Century: An Uneasy Partnership, co-edited with Graham Timmins (Anthem, 2007).
Graham Timmins is Professor of Politics at the University of Stirling and a specialist in EU and German Politics. His publications include Building a Bigger Europe: EU and NATO Enlargement in Comparative Perspective, co-authored with Martin A. Smith (Ashgate, 2000), Uncertain Europe: Building a New European Security Order? co-edited with Martin A. Smith (Routledge, 2001) and Russia and Europe in the Twenty-First Century: An Uneasy Partnership, co-edited with Jackie Gower (Anthem, 2007).
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Contents
Jackie Gower & Graham Timmins
Derek Averre
Stefan Gnzle
Martin Dangerfield
Hiski Haukkala
Rick Fawn
Tuomas Forsberg & Antti Seppo
Mikhail Filippov
Derek Averre is a Senior Lecturer, and currently Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. His main research interests are Russian foreign and security policy, RussiaEurope relations, arms control and non-proliferation issues in the USSR successor states. His most recent publication is From Pristina to Tskhinvali: the legacy of Operation Allied Force in Russias relations with the West, International Affairs, 85, 3, 2009.
Martin Dangerfield holds a Jean Monnet Chair in the European Integration of Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Wolverhampton. His current research interests include EU eastward expansion, subregional cooperation and EU integration, and the European Neighbourhood Policy. His most recent publication was The Visegrad Group in the Expanded European Union: from Preaccession to Postaccession Cooperation in East European Politics and Societies (22, 3, 2008).
Rick Fawn is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His recent publications include, as co-author with Ji Hochman, Historical Dictionary of the Czech State (Scarecrow Press, 2010), and as editor, Globalising the Regional, Regionalising the Global (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Mikhail Filippov is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University. His research focuses on institutional causes of political strategy. He is a co-author with Peter Ordeshook and Olga Shvetsova of Designing Federalism (Cambridge University Press, 2004). His most recent research was published in Pro et Contra (2009) and the Journal of Politics (2010).
Tuomas Forsberg is Professor of International Politics at the University of Tampere and adjunct professor at the University of Helsinki and University of Lapland. Previously he worked at the University of Helsinki, at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany and at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. He gained his PhD at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1998. His research has dealt primarily with European security issues, focusing on European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), Germany, Russia and Northern Europe. His most recent book co-authored with Graeme P. Herd is Divided West: European Security and the Transatlantic Relationship (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006).
Stefan Gnzle is a researcher at the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut fr Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, Germany. From 2004 to 2008, he was DAAD assistant professor of Political Science and European Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. His interests lie in the field of European integration in general and the European Unions role in the world in particular. He received a PhD in political science from the University of Jena and a Masters of European Studies from the University of Bonn.
