Modernisation in EURussian Relations: Past, Present and Future
Written as EURussia relations began their swift decline as a result of the Ukrainian crisis, this book examines the nature of these two actors relationship in respect of their Partnership for Modernisation. The contributing authors look at modernisation through different lenses applying varying methodologies, delivering: historical analysis, economic analysis, levels-of-analysis debate, which brings along transnational, transgovernmental and intergovernmental relations and interrelations between the EU and its member states, discourse analysis, new institutionalism as well as policy analysis. The authors each identify the importance of modernisation for Russia, demonstrating why, despite the current state of relations between Moscow and Brussels, modernisation remains relevant for EURussian relations. At the same time, the plurality of the chapters shows the complexity of the relationship that will have to be taken into account in order to overcome the current crisis and construct sustainable and mutually beneficial relations.
This book was published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.
Maxine David is a Lecturer in European Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is a Foreign Policy analyst, specialising in the EU and Russia. She is one of the editors of, and a contributing author to, National Perspectives on Russia: European Foreign Policy in the Making? (Routledge, 2013). She has also published on gender and the European Neighbourhood Policy and is currently writing a monograph on Putins foreign policy through the lens of the agency-structure debate. Maxine is also editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Research.
Tatiana Romanova is an Associate Professor at St Petersburg State University, she holds a Jean Monnet Chair and runs the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence there. She was one of three editors of an edited collection on EURussian relations, bringing together Russian and Polish perspectives on various aspects of these relations and has authored multiple articles and book chapters on EURussian relations, including economic cooperation, legal approximation, modernisation, the energy dialogue and restrictive measures.
Modernisation in EURussian Relations: Past, Present and Future
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Contents
Maxine David & Tatiana Romanova
Paul Flenley
Richard Connolly
Tatiana Romanova
Marina Larionova
Andrey Makarychev & Stefan Meister
Maxine David
Elena Pavlova
Maria Raquel Freire & Licnia Simo
The chapters in this book were originally published in European Politics and Society, volume 16, issue 1 (April 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Introduction: Modernisation in EURussian Relations: Past, Present, and Future
Maxine David & Tatiana Romanova
European Politics and Society, volume 16, issue 1 (April 2015) pp 110
Chapter 2
The Partnership for Modernisation: Contradictions of the Russian Modernisation Agenda
Paul Flenley
European Politics and Society, volume 16, issue 1 (April 2015) pp 1126
Chapter 3
Economic Modernisation in Russia: The Role of the World Trade Organization
Richard Connolly
European Politics and Society, volume 16, issue 1 (April 2015) pp 2744
Chapter 4
The Partnership for Modernisation Through the Three Level-of-Analysis Perspectives
Tatiana Romanova
European Politics and Society, volume 16, issue 1 (April 2015) pp 4561
Chapter 5
Can the Partnership for Modernisation Help Promote the EURussia Strategic Partnership?
Marina Larionova
European Politics and Society, volume 16, issue 1 (April 2015) pp 6279
Chapter 6
The Modernisation Debate and Russian-German Normative Cleavages
Andrey Makarychev & Stefan Meister
European Politics and Society, volume 16, issue 1 (April 2015) pp 8094
Chapter 7
New Social Media: Modernisation and Democratisation in Russia
Maxine David
European Politics and Society, volume 16, issue 1 (April 2015) pp 95110
Chapter 8
The Russian Federation and European Union against Corruption: A Slight Misunderstanding?
Elena Pavlova
European Politics and Society, volume 16, issue 1 (April 2015) pp 111125
Chapter 9
The Modernisation Agenda in Russian Foreign Policy
Maria Raquel Freire & Licnia Simo
European Politics and Society, volume 16, issue 1 (April 2015) pp 126141
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Introduction
MAXINE DAVID* & TATIANA ROMANOVA**,
*Department of Politics, University of Surrey, UK; **Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg), Russia; Department of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow), Russia
A BSTRACT The purpose of this editorial is to set the context for the special issue on modernisation in European Union (EU)Russian relations. It therefore first locates the Partnership for Modernisation in the context of EURussian relations, identifying its place vis--vis the 1994 Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, 2005 Common Spaces and negotiations on a new EURussian agreement. The article then addresses the current context of these relations, which has been steadily deteriorating since the beginning of 2014 due to events in Ukraine. Third, the editorial identifies the importance of modernisation for Russia and describes how the processes of this millennium are different from Russias previous attempts to modernise. Finally, the article explains why modernisation is still relevant for EURussian relations despite the current state of relations between Moscow and Brussels and introduces the contributions to this special issue.
