Neighbourhood Perceptions of the Ukraine Crisis: From the Soviet Union into Eurasia?

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Title Page
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Contents
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List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 European Union conflict transformation as cross-border co-operation: Potential and limits
	Introduction
	Intergovernmental co-operation and conflict transformation
	Cross-border co-operation as conflict transformation
	Ghost borders of the national imagination
	Cross-border co-operation across the EU’s ‘external frontier’
	Ukraine–borderland
	Conclusion
Chapter 3 Reconceptualizing European neighbourhood beyond geopolitics: Observations on eastern partnership
	Introduction
	Eastern neighbourhood and challenges to the EU’s geopolitical identity
	Territorial tropes and Ukraine within ‘New Cold War’ scenarios
	Reconceptualizing neighbourhood: From geopolitics to engagement
	Conclusion
Part I Russia and Ukraine
	Chapter 4 Russian perceptions of the Ukrainian crisis: From confrontation to damage limitation?
		Introduction
		Conceptual/doctrinal basis
		The Ukrainian question
		Eurasian Economic Union
		Collective Security Treaty Organization
		Shanghai Co-operation Organization
		BRICS
		Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
		Russia’s relations with the West
		Conclusion
	Chapter 5 A squeezed country: Ukraine between Europe and Eurasia
		A split country
		Europe or Eurasia?
		What does Russia want?
		Conclusion
Part II Russian borders in the light of the crisis
	Chapter 6 Shifting borders: Unpredictability and strategic distrust at the Finnish–Russian border
		Introduction
		Borders as multidimensional entities
		Historical background
		Ukraine crisis and Finland
		Conclusion
	Chapter 7 Russia–EU borderlands after the Ukraine crisis: The case of Narva
		Introduction
		Narva: What kind of borderland?
		Discourses of normalization
		Discourses of exceptionalization and securitization
		The impact of the Russia–Ukraine conflict
		Two facets of security
		Conclusion
	Chapter 8 Invested in Ukraine: The struggle of Lithuania against Russia over the future of Europe1
		Introduction
		About Ukraine and the crisis
		Lithuania’s solution
		Conclusion
	Chapter 9 Fearing the worst:  A Latvian view on Russia and the conflict in Ukraine
		Introduction
		Brief history of Latvian–Russian relationships
		Latvia’s official pre- and post-Maidan position towards Russia
		Conclusion
	Chapter 10 The return of geopolitics: Georgia in the shadow of Russian–Ukrainian conflict
		Introduction
		Explaining Georgian–Ukrainian strategic bonds
		Georgia’s Ukraine policy: Implications for party politics
		Why the Ukraine crisis matters for Georgia
		Russian soft power in action and the risk of economic dependency
		Conclusion
	Chapter 11 Having déjà vu: The perception of the Ukrainian crisis in the Republic of Moldova
		Perceptions and reactions to the Ukrainian crisis among the Moldovan political leadership
		The Ukrainian crisis and the media war in Moldova
		Ukraine and Moldova: An intertwined future?
		Conclusion
	Chapter 12 Ukraine and Russia in crisis: A Polish view
		The origins of the Polish–Soviet border
		The expulsions
		Life in a hermetic border region
		Poland and the Ukrainian–Russian war
		Conclusion
	Chapter 13 The Caspian States’ perception of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia
		Introduction
		The Caspian region as an area of geopolitical rivalry1
		The geopolitical background of the Ukrainian crisis
		Russian strategy towards former Soviet republics
		The impact of the Ukrainian crisis on the Caspian states
		Conclusion
Part III Ukrainian–Russian conflict
	Chapter 14 Sources of popular support and opposition to the Putin regime
		Putin’s approval ratings
		The values of Russian citizens
		Conclusion
	Chapter 15 Expanding religious borders?: The new influence of some old state churches: The Russian Orthodoxy
		Introduction
		Symphony and synergy: On the theological–political self-image of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC)
		The transformation phase: From oppression over religious freedom to privileged status
		Autocracy, orthodoxy, national identity: Russia’s ‘de-secularisation from above’52 – merely a fake?
		‘De-secularisation from below’? On the laborious implementation of the Russian Orthodox religious culture
		Conclusion
	Chapter 16 Ukraine: Historical notes on reunification of the Russian lands
		An unclear area
		Kievan Rus’ and Ukraine
		Rus’ and the Russian lands
		Reunification
		From near abroad to Holy Russia
Index of Persons
Index of Places