Ukraine, Russia and the West

When Value Promotion Met Hard Power
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-39628-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

Why did Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine come as such a surprise to the West? This is a key question considered by this reflective and wide-ranging book. The book argues that Russia and the West were playing different games: while Russia under Putin had become obsessed with using hard power to restore the Cold War security architecture in Europe, the major Western powers had become equally obsessed with value promotion that would ensure a global triumph for the values of the West, touted as “universal values.” The Russian play for spheres of interest was clearly defined and demarcated, the Western play for values was, by definition, without limits. Hence there could be no common ground, no constructive communication, and no common understanding. While Russia convinced itself that it would be successful in forcing the West to accept its claims for a new security order, based on hard power, Western governments deluded themselves into believing that value promotion would transform Russia into a liberal democracy and a rules-based market economy. Examining the full situation, exploring political, military, economic and business spheres, the book provides a deep analysis of how the present confrontation has come about.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hedlund, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Section I: Theoretical Background

1. Institutions and Policy Making

2. Roots of Western Ethnocentricity

3. Reflections on Revolutions

Section II: Empirical Evidence

4. Color Revolutions

5. Orange Revolution and the Euromaidan

6. Russia’s Abortive Snow Revolution

Section III: The Nature of the Problem

7. The Elusive Informal Institutions

8. Moral Hazard and the Ivory Tower

9. Is the West Really Superior?

Section IV: Outlook

10. The End of History, 2.0

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Hedlund is Senior Professor of Russian and East European Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden