Vocabularies of International Relations after the Crisis in Ukraine

This book analyses the conflict in Ukraine and Russia's annexation of Crimea, covering conceptualisations from rationalist to reflectivist, and from quantitative to qualitative. Most contributors agree that many of the old concepts, such as multi-polarity, spheres of influence, sovereignty, or even containment, are still cognitively valid, yet believe the eruption of the crisis means that they are now used in different contexts and thus infused with different meanings.

Autorentext
Andrey Makarychev is Guest Professor at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Science, University of Tartu, Estonia. He has published many books and research articles on a variety of topics related to Russian foreign policy.Alexandra Yatsyk is Visiting Researcher at the Centre Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Uppsala, Sweden, and Head of the Centre for Cultural Studies of Post-Socialism, Kazan Federal University, Russia.

Zusammenfassung
The conflict in Ukraine and Russia's annexation of Crimea has undoubtedly been a pivotal moment for policy makers and military planners in Europe and beyond. Many analysts see an unexpected character in the conflict and expect negative reverberations and a long-lasting period of turbulence and uncertainty, the de-legitimation of international institutions and a declining role for global norms and rules. Did these events bring substantial correctives and modifications to the extant conceptualization of International Relations? Does the conflict significantly alter previous assumptions and foster a new academic vocabulary, or, does it confirm the validity of well-established schools of thought in international relations? Has the crisis in Ukraine confirmed the vitality and academic vigour of conventional concepts? These questions are the starting points for this book covering conceptualisations from rationalist to reflectivist, and from quantitative to qualitative. Most contributors agree that many of the old concepts, such as multi-polarity, spheres of influence, sovereignty, or even containment, are still cognitively valid, yet believe the eruption of the crisis means that they are now used in different contexts and thus infused with different meanings. It is these multiple, conceptual languages that the volume puts at the centre of its analysis.This text will be of great interest to students and scholars studying international relations, politics, and Russian and Ukrainian studies.

Inhalt
Introduction1. 'There are More Important Things than Where the Border Runs': The Other Side of George Kennan's Containment Theory2. The Crisis of Spheres of Influence in the EU-Russia Relationship3. Borderline strategies: calibrated territorial expansionism in the game theory searchlight4. From 'colony' to 'failing state'? Ukrainian sovereignty in the gaze of Russian foreign policy discourses5. Reconsidering Western concepts of the Ukrainian conflict: The rise to prominence of Russia's "soft Power" policy6. Rising powers in the Contemporary World: Sources of Sustainability7. Governmentality Beyond the West: (post)political machineries in Ukraine and Russia8. Managing national ressentiment: morality politics in Putin's Russia9. Stabilizing dispersed identities, or Why politics defines EU-Russia disconnections

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