Skip to main content

ETHNOS_APP

Home • Search • Journals • List 0

Russia’s Enhanced role in Eurasia

The ‘Near Abroad’ Three Decades On

Bibliographic Data

ID7989587
AuthorsRoger E Kanet (0000-0002-2041-9429, University of Miami, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume24
Issue3
Pages421-433
Publication date2022-03-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Politics and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2374-5126 • E-ISSN: 2374-5118
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23745118.2022.2050585
OpenAlexW4220922100
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited23

Russian policy has become much more hostile to the West in the last decade. Did the West, much as President Putin has charged, attempt to constrain or contain Russian influence in its 'near abroad,' and, if so, were they successful in their efforts? It was Moscow's decision to pursue its own path, by not integrating into the West, that put it at odds with the West.Besides its military intervention in Georgia, by fall 2008 Russia had successfully warded off most Western attempts to tie several post-Soviet states more closely to the West. With the collapse of the pro-Russian Yanukovych government in Ukraine six years later and the Russian military intervention in Crimea and its incorporation into the Russian Federation, and the establishment of Russian protectorates in the secessionist regions of eastern Ukraine and has led to its current invasion of Ukraine.It is extremely important to recognize the role of Moscow's view of Russia in relationship to the rest of the world since this almost messianic perception lies at the heart of foreign relations. Russians' current nationalism and self-image as a great power is built on centuries of such a view and implies Russia's dominant role, at least in its own neighborhood

Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Foreign policy · Geography · Government (linguistics · Intervention (counseling · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Russian federation · Sociology · Sovereignty · Territorial integrity · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · History · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Russia and Soviet political economy

  • Portrayal of Russian Foreign Policy towards Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014 in the Western and Russian Academia

    Open Access•Orkun Arslan•Contemporary Europe•2023

  • The impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on the Black Sea Economic Cooperation

    Pınar Akgül•Journal of Southeast European and…•2026

  • Superpowers and regional powers' soft power in Kazakhstan

    Open Access•Saken Yessirkep, Gaukhar Abdrakhmanova et al.•Frontiers in Political Science•2025

  • Competing Regionalisms and Power Projection

    Open Access•Mark Angelo Gajardo•Chinese Political Science Review•2026

  • The agency of secondary states in post-Soviet Eurasian regionalism

    Open Access•Murad Nasibov, Andrea Gawrich•International Politics•2025

  • Contingent Authoritarian Regionalism

    Open Access•Murad Nasibov•Problems of Post-Communism•2025

  • Great Games, Local Rules

    Alexander Cooley•Great Games, Local Rules•2012

  • Foreign Policy Analysis

    Open Access•Nikolas K Gvosdev, Jessica D Blankshain et al.•Decision-Making in American…•2019

  • National Identity and Foreign Policy

    Open Access•Ilya Prizel•National Identity and Foreign…•1998

  • Post-Soviet Russian identity and its influence on European-Russian relations

    Open Access•Алла Борисовна Лихачева, I Makarov et al.•European Journal of Futures…•2015

  • The Belt and Road Initiative and the Eurasian Economic Union

    Open Access•Gaziza Shakhanova, Jeremy Garlick•Journal of Current Chinese Affairs•2020

  • Putin’s “Global Hybrid War”

    Andrei P Tsygankov, П А Цыганков et al.•Russia in Global Affairs•2021

  • Putin, the State, and War

    Elias Götz•International Studies Review•2016

  • The failed Western challenge to Russia’s revival in Eurasia

    Open Access•Roger E Kanet•International Politics•2015

  • Russia and global governance

    Open Access•Roger E Kanet•International Politics•2017

  • The Nature of Russia's Identity

    Open Access•Rosalind Marsh•Nationalities Papers•2007

  • Identities, Nations and Politics after Communism

    Open Access•Roger E Kanet•Nationalities Papers•2007

  • Discussing China

    Open Access•Sébastien Peyrouse•Journal of Eurasian Studies•2015

Unique citing works6
Citations per year2
Citation span2023 - 2026 (4)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 6

Tools

Open DOI
Ethnos_APP • Open Source Project • MIT License • Frontend v2.0.0 • Privacy and Cookies • API Documentation: api.ethnos.app/docs • API Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17049435 • Frontend Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17050053 • cruz.rio.br • Expectantes Misericordiae