Author:
Graney, Katherine E., 1970- author.
ImprintNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Descriptionxxviii, 439 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note:Part One: Theories and Histories: Europeanization and the Post-Communist World Since 1989 -- Chapter One: From Europhilia to Europhobia? Trajectories and Theories of Europeanization in the Post-Communist World Since 1989 -- Chapter Two: Europe as a Cultural-Civilizational Construct -- Chapter Three: Political Europeanization Since 1989 -- Chapter Four: Security Europeanization Since 1989 -- Chapter Five: Cultural-Civilizational Europeanization Since 1989 -- Part Two: Case Studies -- Chapter Six: Russia: Eternal and Incomplete Europeanization -- Chapter Seven: The Baltic States: Successful "Return to Europe" -- Chapter Eight: Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova: Almost European? -- Chapter Nine: The Caucasus States: The Endpoint of Europe or Europe's New Eastern Boundary? -- Chapter Ten: The Central Asian States -- Chapter Eleven: Conclusion: The Continuing Influence of the Eurocentric-Orientalist Cultural Gradient on European, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-417) and index.
Note:"Nearly three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, early hopes for the integration of the post-Soviet states into a "Europe whole and free" seem to have been decisively dashed. Europe itself is in the midst of a multifaceted crisis that threatens the considerable gains of the post-war liberal European experiment. In Russia, the Former Soviet Republics, and Europe Since 1989, Katherine Graney provides a panoramic and historically-rooted overview of the process of "Europeanization" in Russia and all fourteen of the former Soviet republics since 1989. Graney argues that deeply rooted ideas about Europe's cultural-civilizational primacy and concerns about both ideological and institutional alignment with Europe continue to influence both internal politics in contemporary Europe and the processes of Europeanization in the post-Soviet world. By comparing the effect of the phenomenon across Russia and the ex-republics, Graney provides a theoretically grounded and empirically rich window into how we should study politics in the former USSR."-- Provided by publisher.
