Verfasst von:	Hedlund, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Ukraine, Russia and the West
Titelzusatz:	when value promotion met hard power
Institutionen:	George Routledge & Sons (London) [Verlag]
Verf.angabe:	Stefan Hedlund
Verlagsort:	London ; New York
Verlag:	Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Jahr:	2023
Umfang:	xiii, 284 Seiten
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series ; 107
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 255-276
Ang. zum Inhalt:	Theoretical background
	Institutions and policy making
	Roots of Western ethnocentricity
	Reflections on revolutions
	Empirical evidence
	Color revolutions
	Orange Revolution and the Euromaidan
	Russia's abortive Snow Revolution
	The nature of the problem
	The elusive informal institutions
	Moral hazard and the ivory tower
	Is the West really superior?
	Outlook
	The end of history, 2.0
ISBN:	978-1-032-39628-6
	978-1-032-39629-3
Abstract:	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.
DOI:	doi:10.4324/9781003350613
URL:	Cover: https://images.routledge.com/common/jackets/crclarge/978103239/9781032396293.jpg
	DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003350613
Schlagwörter:	(s)Politischer Konflikt    / (s)Russisch-Ukrainischer Krieg    / (s)Internationaler Konflikt    / (g)Westliche Welt    / (z)Geschichte
Sprache:	eng
RVK-Notation:	ML 7260
	MK 3100
	ML 7250
	ML 1000
K10plus-PPN:	1832136094
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