S. Prozorov's Understanding Conflict between Russia and the EU: The Limits PDF

By S. Prozorov

ISBN-10: 0230625339

ISBN-13: 9780230625334

ISBN-10: 140399689X

ISBN-13: 9781403996893

Figuring out clash among Russia and the ecu addresses the conflictual concerns in EU-Russian relatives and offers an leading edge concept for the knowledge in their emergence. Drawing on up to date examine facts, the writer argues that conflicts in EU-Russian family are generated via the conflict of rules of country sovereignty and overseas integration, which symbolize the regulations of each side.

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Both parties are viewed as unproblematic unitary subjects, which permits the construction of facile binary oppositions. In the transitionalist approach, the EU is presented as a champion of liberal progress and the embodiment of the integrationist ideal, while Russia is presented either as a passive apprentice in the process of transition or a deviant political subject with an illegitimate political orientation. In the traditionalist approach, both parties are cast as particularistic political communities, divided by irreducible difference, which makes their conflictual orientation towards each other a premise of any argument on EU–Russian relations and hence not in need of explanation or interpretation.

On the aggregate level, the content of these discourses is exhausted by the following narrative: initial expectations of Russia following the Fukuyama-esque ‘post-historical’ logic of liberal emulation and the European efforts of technical and political assistance to these processes end in an almost universal disappointment and disillusionment,15 which leads to the recourse to cultural or civilisational explanations that emphasise Russia’s essential otherness to Europe and the West in general. These explanations require a dispensation with illusions of political and socio-economic convergence and the return to some form of geopolitical containment on the part of Europe and a renunciation of the cosmopolitan outlook on the part of Russia, which should lead to Russia’s ‘concentration’ on domestic reconstruction and efforts at the maintenance of a regional hegemony in the post-Soviet space.

While such important aspects of EU–Russian relations as the ‘energy dialogue’ or the creation of the Common Economic Space remain too abstract and complex to attract much popular or media interest, the increasingly stringent visa regime has generated considerable media controversies that also succeeded in raising the profile of this issue in the more scholarly Russian discourse on relations with the EU: ‘This aspect of relations between Russia and the EU can by no means be ignored. Many citizens of Russia, particularly young people, wish to visit Europe and the clash with the visa regime, complicated by bureaucratic procedures, leaves them with a negative impression of it’ A European Country Outside Europe 33 (Khudolei, 2003: 24).

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