Neighbourhood Perceptions of the Ukraine Crisis

Gerhard Besier is currently Director of the Sigmund Neumann Institute (Berlin, Dresden, Flensburg) and teaches at Stanford University, USA. Katarzyna Stokłosa is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Management, Centre for Border Region Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

• ContentsList of illustrations Notes on contributors List of abbreviations 1 Introduction Gerhard Besier and Katarzyna Stokłosa2 European Union conflict transformation as cross-border co-operation: potential and limits Cathal McCall3 Reconceptualizing European neighbourhood beyond geopolitics: observations on eastern partnership James Wesley ScottPart I Russia and Ukraine: an ambivalent neighbourhood 4 Russian perceptions of the Ukrainian crisis: from confrontation to damage limitation? Alexander Sergunin5 A squeezed country: Ukraine between Europe and Eurasia Mikhail A. MolchanovPart II Russian borders in the light of the crisis 6 Shifting borders: unpredictability and strategic distrust at the Finnish–Russian border Jussi Laine7 Russia–EU borderlands after the Ukraine crisis: the case of Narva Andrey Makarychev And Alexandra Yatsyk8 Invested in Ukraine: the struggle of Lithuania against Russia over the future of Europe Dovilė Jakniūnaitė9 Fearing the worst: a Latvian view on Russia and the conflict in Ukraine Ilvija BruĢe and Kārlis Bukovskis10 T he return of geopolitics: Georgia in the shadow of Russian–Ukrainian conflict Kornely Kakachia11 Having deja vu: the perception of the Ukrainian crisis in the Republic of Moldova Corneliu Pintilescu and Onoriu Colăcel12 Ukraine and Russia in crisis: a Polish view Katarzyna Stokłosa13 T he Caspian States’ perception of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia Justyna MisiągiewiczPart III Ukrainian–Russian conflict: world views, belief systems and ideologies as sources and instruments 14 Sources of popular support and opposition to the Putin regime Cameron Ross15 Expanding religious borders? The new influence of some old state churches: the Russian Orthodoxy Gerhard Besier16 Ukraine: historical notes on reunification of the Russian lands Jukka KorpelaIndex of persons Index of places

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