One Europe or None? Monism, Involution and Relations with Russia

Sakwa, Richard

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“…Indeed, some of the remnants of these institutions could be used instrumentally to anchor emerging norms, principles and institutions but should be abandoned when a new system and its institutions finally take shape (Dembinski and Spanger, 2017). opponents of this approach in the West, however, are "monistically" sure that these old institutions can still provide a sustainable framework for stability in the continent and that Russia should return to the old rules of the game (Sakwa, 2018). By so doing, however, they ignore moscow's absolute reluctance to return to "business as usual, " as the Paris Charter-based order is perceived as genuinely unjust and even threatening Russia's national security and ideational interests.…”

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Russia’s Dissociation from the Paris Charter-Based Order: Implications and Pitfalls

Polianskii¹

2021

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The Ukraine crisis of 2014 marked the culmination of Russia’s dissociation from the Paris Charter-based European order, and from the global liberal order more generally. Processes of dissociation—defined as intentional distancing from the core rules and norms of institutions—occur relatively often and may even become an increasingly dominant feature of world politics as de-globalization advances. However, this phenomenon has rarely been tackled in academic research. In particular, it remains unclear what the driving forces of dissociation are and whether tensions between “leavers” and “remainers” in this process are destined to increase. This paper aims to address this issue by analyzing the justifications employed by the Russian government in the process of dissociation from the Paris Charter-based European security order before 2014, differentiating between material and ideational dimensions. The study demonstrates how the order that was once seen as a common project was ultimately perceived by Russia as a mechanism of subjugation by the West, which led to Moscow’s departure from it.

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Russia’s Dissociation from the Paris Charter-Based Order: Implications and Pitfalls

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2021

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“…There could be no legitimate outside to its own expansive ambitions. The counterpart to universalism is monism, which eroded the coherence of liberalism in domestic and foreign policy (Sakwa 2017b , 2018b ). This helps explain why relations with the EU deteriorated so drastically after 2004.…”

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Greater Russia: Is Moscow out to subvert the West?

Sakwa

2020

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Russia today is presented as out to subvert the West. The chosen means are meddling in elections and sowing discord in Western societies. Russia in this imaginary looms over an unsuspecting West, undermining democracy and supporting disruptive forces. No longer couched in terms of the Cold War struggle between capitalism and communism, this is a reversion to great power politics of the rawest sort. However, is this analysis correct? Is Vladimir Putin out to undermine the West to achieve his alleged goal of re-establishing some sort of post-Soviet 'greater Russia' imperial union in Russia's neighbourhood, to weaken the Atlantic power system and to undermine the liberal international order? The paper challenges the view that Russia is trying to reconstitute a Soviet-type challenge to the West, and provides an analytical framework to examine the dynamics of Russian foreign policy and on that basis assesses Russia's real rather than imaginary aspirations.

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Public diplomacy and the persistence of the conflict and cooperation dichotomy in EU-Russia relations

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Pasatoiu

2022

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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One Europe or None? Monism, Involution and Relations with Russia

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Cited by 5 publications

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Russia’s Dissociation from the Paris Charter-Based Order: Implications and Pitfalls

Russia’s Dissociation from the Paris Charter-Based Order: Implications and Pitfalls

Greater Russia: Is Moscow out to subvert the West?

Public diplomacy and the persistence of the conflict and cooperation dichotomy in EU-Russia relations

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