EU-Russia Relations, 1999-2015 From Courtship to Confrontation [Hardcover]

This book traces the development of EU-Russia relations in recent years. It argues that a major factor influencing the relationship is the changing internal dynamics of both parties, in Russias case an increasingly authoritarian state, in the case of the EU an increasing coherence in its foreign policy as applied to former Soviet countries which Russia regarded as interference in its own sphere. The book considers the impact of conflicts in Kosovo, Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine, discusses the changing internal situation in both Russia and the EU, including the difficulties in overcoming fragmentation in EU policy-making, and concludes by assessing how the situation is likely to develop.

1. EU-Russian Diplomacy during the Kosovo War

2. Overcoming The Chechnya Irritant In EU-Russia Relations

3. Russia and the Politics of the EUs Eastern Enlargement

4. The Risks of the Enlarged EU for EU-Russia Relations during the Orange Revolution

5. Towards Confrontation 2006-2008

6. The Effects of the EUs Diplomacy in Georgia

7. The Point of no Return? EU-Russia Relations after the Euro-Maidan

The divergent trajectories of the EU and Russia in the early 2000s set the two entities on the path of confrontation. In this detailed empirical study, Anna-Sophie Maass convincingly demonstrates that a series of external shocks helped reshape their relationship at the same time as the internal evolution of the two brought about a new understanding of their respective actorness in a system in which no fundamental mode of reconciliation had been devised. This important work repl31