Format:
1 online resource (xii, 305 pages)
ISBN:
9781315858036
,
9781317935490
,
9781317935506
Series Statement:
BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies 107
Content:
The collapse of the Soviet Union has had profound and long-lasting impacts on the societies of Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia, impacts which are not yet fully worked through: changes in state-society relations, a comprehensive reconfiguration of political, economic and social ties, the resurgence of regional conflicts "frozen" during the Soviet period, and new migration patterns both towards Russia and the European Union. At the same time the EU has emerged as an important player in the region, formulating its European Neighbourhood Policy, and engaging neighbouring states in a process of cross-border regional co-operation. This book explores a wide range of complex and contested questions related to borders, security and migration in the emerging "European Neighbourhood" which includes countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia as well as the countries which immediately border the EU. Issues discussed include new forms of regional and cross-border co-operation, new patterns of migration, and the potential role of the EU as a stabilizing external force.
Content:
The end of wider Europe? : The EU, changing borders and spatial imaginaries of post-Soviet space / Ilkka Liikanen, James W. Scott and Tina Sotkasiira -- 1. Building regional stability through cross-border cooperation : changing spatial imaginaries and sovereignty concepts of EU neighbourhood policies / Ilkka Liikanen -- 2. Ukraine : history confronts geography / Volodymyr Kravchenko -- 3. Borders and nation-building in post-Soviet space : a glance from the Republic of Moldova / Octavian Ticu -- 4. Reconceptualisations of borders in post-Soviet Ukraine : between EU regulations, the Soviet legacy and internal political strife / Olga Filippova -- 5. Eastern neighbourhood as a political divide : critically assessing EU policies of regional cross-border cooperation in the case of Ukraine / James Wesley Scott -- 6. Bordering in post-Soviet Central Asia : two tales from Tajikistan / Joni Virkkunen and Paul Fryer -- 7. Of barriers, breaches and bridges : cross-border ecotourism and the prospect of horizontal governance acting as a bridge in Belarus-EU neighbourhood relations / Anais Marin -- 8. Where ideals and anxieties meet : the EU and migration policy in wider Europe / Tiina Sotkasira -- 9. The new concept of migration policy of the Russian Federation : revolution or re-evolution? / Sergia Riazantsev -- 10. The Republic of Belarus : flows and tendencies in migration processes / Larissa Titarenko -- 11. What kind of choice? : understanding migration in Tajikistan / Paul Fryer, Joni Virkkunen and Furugzod Usmonov -- 12. Labour migration and the contradictory logic of integration in Russia / Olga Tkach and Olga Brenikova -- 13. Colonial imagination on a postcolonial periphery : educational migration in Azerbaijan and the construction of an elite of expectations / Sergey Rumyantsev -- 14. Gendered migration from Moldova and Ukraine to the EU : who cares? / Olga Davydova-Minguet, Valeriu Mosneaga and Oleskii Pozniak -- 15. Contemporary Ukrainian migration to EU countries : trends and challenges / Ihor Markov.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415722865
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138477698
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415722865
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315858036
