Regions in Transition in the Former Soviet Area

Alessandra Russo is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France. She specializes in the study of regional organisations (with a special focus on the post-Soviet region), critical theories of Security Studies, transnational organized crime and terrorism.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Region-Building in the Former Soviet Space.- Chapter 3: The Paradox of Russian Hegemony.- Chapter 4: Post-Soviet States and Post-Soviet Regions.- Chapter 5: State Identity and Regional Imaginaries in Georgia.- Chapter 6: Regional Models of Governance Transfer?.- Chapter 7:  Conclusions.

“The book offers a novel and well-substantiated argument about the relationship between the state and region-making in the former Soviet space. … the book is an important contribution to the field, in that its focus on co-constitution offers a refreshing prism through which to address the relationship between the state and region-making in the former Soviet space.” (Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 71 (5), 2019)