Valentina Feklyunina
Biographic Data
| ID | 4085440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentina Feklyunina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentina |
| FAMILY NAME | Feklyunina |
| SIGNATURE | FEKLYUNINA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2212-6427 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Alignment as a process
What factors make aligned relationships possible, and how can we account for transformation of alignments? Alignment patterns and the durability of some aligned relationships above others have often raised questions about factors that influence cooperative arrangements. This article makes a twofold contribution by proposing a tentative process-centred alignment typology as an analytical tool and by empirically applying this tool to examine Sino–R…
Militarization of history and mnemonic habits in Putin’s Russia
Historical Analogies, Nuclear Mythmaking, and Coercive Diplomacy in Putin’s Russia
Immediately before and during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian foreign policy experts and high-ranking officials have often employed a historical analogy with the Cuban missile crisis to argue that a “sobering” crisis would allow Russia to renegotiate its relationship with the “West.” As Russia’s war against Ukraine became prolonged, recurrent references to 1962 in Russian public forums have become interwoven into the unusually vi…
Engaging with research methods in comparative politics courses
This article reflects on a pedagogic experiment of engaging with research methods in the teaching of an undergraduate course on “Contemporary Russian Politics” at Newcastle University (UK). We argue that the incorporation of an explicit and systematic discussion and practice of research methods in a Comparative Politics course is important for three interconnected reasons. First, by introducing students to different aspects of the political syste…
Reflecting On Our Strengths and Strategy
Soft power and identity
What is soft power, and how can we analyse it empirically? The article proposes a social constructivist take on soft power by anchoring it to the concept of collective identity, and by suggesting a set of criteria that can be used to assess whether soft power is present in a relationship between two or more states. It argues that soft power is generated through continuous renegotiation of collective identity. We can assess the weight of a state’s…
Introduction
To what extent can authoritarian states wield soft power – the ability to shape the preferences of others through attraction rather than coercion – in their relations with other international actors? Over the past two decades authoritarian regimes across the world have increasingly embraced the idea of soft power. Yet, as argued by Joseph Nye (2013), their efforts to harness the ‘power of attraction’ are highly unlikely to bring any meaningful re…
Identities and Foreign Policies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
This book maps changing definitions of statehood in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus as a result of their exclusion from an expanding Europe. The authors examine the perceptions of the place of each state
Special Section
Questions of change and continuity are central to the disciplines of Politics and International Relations. They are especially salient in studies of domestic politics, foreign policies and international interaction in the era of the Former Soviet Union. The region’s turbulent history in the 20 century and the difficulty of reinventing and rediscovering nations in the post-Soviet area raise a myriad of intriguing questions. For example, what histo…
Belarus
Explaining Foreign Policy
Explaining Foreign Policy: International Diplomacy and the Russo-Georgian War by Hans Mouritzen and Anders Wivel, Boulder, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012, 223 pp., ISBN 978-1-58826-835-8 Russia's f
Russia's foreign policy towards Poland
Russia's International Images and its Energy Policy. An Unreliable Supplier
In recent years, the Russian authorities have invested significant effort into promoting a positive image of Russia as an energy supplier. Yet, Russia's behaviour sometimes seems to contradict the declared aim of improving this image. A particularly interesting case is the way the Russian authorities and Gazprom handled the dispute with Ukraine over gas prices in December 2008–January 2009, when the transit of Russian gas to a number of EU member…
Discourses of ‘Krizis’
By the time Vladimir Putin left presidential office in early 2008, the claim to power by the Russian authorities had been increasingly based on performance legitimacy. The financial and economic crisis that began to extend to Russia in late 2008 represented a major challenge for the Putin and Medvedev ‘tandem’. Several narratives which suggest different assessments of the causes of the crisis and its significance for Russia were presented in offi…
Russia's Authoritarian Elections
No abstract available
Belarus, Ukraine and Russia
Belarus and Ukraine are ‘lands in between’, pulled by their language, religion and history towards the west but also towards the former Soviet republics in the east with which they were for so long associated. The evidence of national representative surveys between 2000 and 2010 suggests that feelings of ‘Europeanness’ have been declining, as is also the case in Russia; so has the wish to join the European Union (although it remains a popular opt…
The 'Great Diversification Game
This article examines Russia’s vision of the European Union’s energy diversification projects that focus on their ‘shared neighbourhood’. It argues that although the European Union (EU), unlike the USA, is not yet seen as a serious threat to Russian interests in the area, this situation is rapidly changing, with the Kremlin becoming increasingly sensitive about the EU’s plans to diversify energy supply sources and transportation routes by increas…
Battle for Perceptions
The article provides an analysis of Russia's image that the Kremlin has been projecting in Western countries in the years of Vladimir Putin's presidency. The negative character of Russia's image in the West was recognised as one of the major security threats for the country, and an energetic public relations campaign was launched to improve it. The article explores the core elements of this ‘constructed’ image, and examines how they are related t…
Battle for Perceptions
The article provides an analysis of Russia's image that the Kremlin has been projecting in Western countries in the years of Vladimir Putin's presidency. The negative character of Russia's image in the West was recognised as one of the major security threats for the country, and an energetic public relations campaign was launched to improve it. The article explores the core elements of this ‘constructed’ image, and examines how they are related t…
Soft power and identity
What is soft power, and how can we analyse it empirically? The article proposes a social constructivist take on soft power by anchoring it to the concept of collective identity, and by suggesting a set of criteria that can be used to assess whether soft power is present in a relationship between two or more states. It argues that soft power is generated through continuous renegotiation of collective identity. We can assess the weight of a state’s…
Belarus, Ukraine and Russia
Belarus and Ukraine are ‘lands in between’, pulled by their language, religion and history towards the west but also towards the former Soviet republics in the east with which they were for so long associated. The evidence of national representative surveys between 2000 and 2010 suggests that feelings of ‘Europeanness’ have been declining, as is also the case in Russia; so has the wish to join the European Union (although it remains a popular opt…
Russia's International Images and its Energy Policy. An Unreliable Supplier
In recent years, the Russian authorities have invested significant effort into promoting a positive image of Russia as an energy supplier. Yet, Russia's behaviour sometimes seems to contradict the declared aim of improving this image. A particularly interesting case is the way the Russian authorities and Gazprom handled the dispute with Ukraine over gas prices in December 2008–January 2009, when the transit of Russian gas to a number of EU member…
Introduction
To what extent can authoritarian states wield soft power – the ability to shape the preferences of others through attraction rather than coercion – in their relations with other international actors? Over the past two decades authoritarian regimes across the world have increasingly embraced the idea of soft power. Yet, as argued by Joseph Nye (2013), their efforts to harness the ‘power of attraction’ are highly unlikely to bring any meaningful re…
Discourses of ‘Krizis’
By the time Vladimir Putin left presidential office in early 2008, the claim to power by the Russian authorities had been increasingly based on performance legitimacy. The financial and economic crisis that began to extend to Russia in late 2008 represented a major challenge for the Putin and Medvedev ‘tandem’. Several narratives which suggest different assessments of the causes of the crisis and its significance for Russia were presented in offi…
Russia's Authoritarian Elections
No abstract available
Russia's foreign policy towards Poland
The 'Great Diversification Game
This article examines Russia’s vision of the European Union’s energy diversification projects that focus on their ‘shared neighbourhood’. It argues that although the European Union (EU), unlike the USA, is not yet seen as a serious threat to Russian interests in the area, this situation is rapidly changing, with the Kremlin becoming increasingly sensitive about the EU’s plans to diversify energy supply sources and transportation routes by increas…
The 'Great Diversification Game
This article examines Russia’s vision of the European Union’s energy diversification projects that focus on their ‘shared neighbourhood’. It argues that although the European Union (EU), unlike the USA, is not yet seen as a serious threat to Russian interests in the area, this situation is rapidly changing, with the Kremlin becoming increasingly sensitive about the EU’s plans to diversify energy supply sources and transportation routes by increas…
Battle for Perceptions
The article provides an analysis of Russia's image that the Kremlin has been projecting in Western countries in the years of Vladimir Putin's presidency. The negative character of Russia's image in the West was recognised as one of the major security threats for the country, and an energetic public relations campaign was launched to improve it. The article explores the core elements of this ‘constructed’ image, and examines how they are related t…
Belarus, Ukraine and Russia
Belarus and Ukraine are ‘lands in between’, pulled by their language, religion and history towards the west but also towards the former Soviet republics in the east with which they were for so long associated. The evidence of national representative surveys between 2000 and 2010 suggests that feelings of ‘Europeanness’ have been declining, as is also the case in Russia; so has the wish to join the European Union (although it remains a popular opt…
Discourses of ‘Krizis’
By the time Vladimir Putin left presidential office in early 2008, the claim to power by the Russian authorities had been increasingly based on performance legitimacy. The financial and economic crisis that began to extend to Russia in late 2008 represented a major challenge for the Putin and Medvedev ‘tandem’. Several narratives which suggest different assessments of the causes of the crisis and its significance for Russia were presented in offi…
Russia's Authoritarian Elections
No abstract available
Russia's foreign policy towards Poland
Russia's International Images and its Energy Policy. An Unreliable Supplier
In recent years, the Russian authorities have invested significant effort into promoting a positive image of Russia as an energy supplier. Yet, Russia's behaviour sometimes seems to contradict the declared aim of improving this image. A particularly interesting case is the way the Russian authorities and Gazprom handled the dispute with Ukraine over gas prices in December 2008–January 2009, when the transit of Russian gas to a number of EU member…
Explaining Foreign Policy
Explaining Foreign Policy: International Diplomacy and the Russo-Georgian War by Hans Mouritzen and Anders Wivel, Boulder, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012, 223 pp., ISBN 978-1-58826-835-8 Russia's f
Identities and Foreign Policies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
This book maps changing definitions of statehood in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus as a result of their exclusion from an expanding Europe. The authors examine the perceptions of the place of each state
Special Section
Questions of change and continuity are central to the disciplines of Politics and International Relations. They are especially salient in studies of domestic politics, foreign policies and international interaction in the era of the Former Soviet Union. The region’s turbulent history in the 20 century and the difficulty of reinventing and rediscovering nations in the post-Soviet area raise a myriad of intriguing questions. For example, what histo…
Belarus
Introduction
To what extent can authoritarian states wield soft power – the ability to shape the preferences of others through attraction rather than coercion – in their relations with other international actors? Over the past two decades authoritarian regimes across the world have increasingly embraced the idea of soft power. Yet, as argued by Joseph Nye (2013), their efforts to harness the ‘power of attraction’ are highly unlikely to bring any meaningful re…
Reflecting On Our Strengths and Strategy
Soft power and identity
What is soft power, and how can we analyse it empirically? The article proposes a social constructivist take on soft power by anchoring it to the concept of collective identity, and by suggesting a set of criteria that can be used to assess whether soft power is present in a relationship between two or more states. It argues that soft power is generated through continuous renegotiation of collective identity. We can assess the weight of a state’s…
Engaging with research methods in comparative politics courses
This article reflects on a pedagogic experiment of engaging with research methods in the teaching of an undergraduate course on “Contemporary Russian Politics” at Newcastle University (UK). We argue that the incorporation of an explicit and systematic discussion and practice of research methods in a Comparative Politics course is important for three interconnected reasons. First, by introducing students to different aspects of the political syste…
Alignment as a process
What factors make aligned relationships possible, and how can we account for transformation of alignments? Alignment patterns and the durability of some aligned relationships above others have often raised questions about factors that influence cooperative arrangements. This article makes a twofold contribution by proposing a tentative process-centred alignment typology as an analytical tool and by empirically applying this tool to examine Sino–R…
Militarization of history and mnemonic habits in Putin’s Russia
Historical Analogies, Nuclear Mythmaking, and Coercive Diplomacy in Putin’s Russia
Immediately before and during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian foreign policy experts and high-ranking officials have often employed a historical analogy with the Cuban missile crisis to argue that a “sobering” crisis would allow Russia to renegotiate its relationship with the “West.” As Russia’s war against Ukraine became prolonged, recurrent references to 1962 in Russian public forums have become interwoven into the unusually vi…
Political science (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (5 works) · Foreign policy (5 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (5 works)