Andrey Makarychev is Guest Professor at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Science, University of Tartu, Estonia. He has published many books and research articles on a variety of topics related to Russian foreign policy.Alexandra Yatsyk is Visiting Researcher at the Centre Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Uppsala, Sweden, and Head of the Centre for Cultural Studies of Post-Socialism, Kazan Federal University, Russia.

"An exceedingly timely volume critically rethinking the most substantial concepts of international political theories and giving valuable insights for a better understanding of current EU’s and Russia’s policies after the Ukraine crisis." - Javier Solana, former Secretary General of NATO, the EU's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the EU and Secretary-General of the Western European Union.

• Introduction1. ‘There are More Important Things than Where the Border Runs’: The Other Side of George Kennan’s Containment Theory2. The Crisis of Spheres of Influence in the EU-Russia Relationship3. Borderline strategies: calibrated territorial expansionism in the game theory searchlight4. From ‘colony’ to ‘failing state’? Ukrainian sovereignty in the gaze of Russian foreign policy discourses5. Reconsidering Western concepts of the Ukrainian conflict: The rise to prominence of Russia’s "soft Power" policy6. Rising powers in the Contemporary World: Sources of Sustainability7. Governmentality Beyond the West: (post)political machineries in Ukraine and Russia8. Managing national ressentiment: morality politics in Putin’s Russia9. Stabilizing dispersed identities, or Why politics defines EU-Russia disconnections

Andrey Makarychev is Guest Professor at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Science, University of Tartu, Estonia. He has published many books and research articles on a variety of topics related to Russian foreign policy.Alexandra Yatsyk is Visiting Researcher at the Centre Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Uppsala, Sweden, and Head of the Centre for Cultural Studies of Post-Socialism, Kazan Federal University, Russia.

"An exceedingly timely volume critically rethinking the most substantial concepts of international political theories and giving valuable insights for a better understanding of current EU’s and Russia’s policies after the Ukraine crisis." - Javier Solana, former Secretary General of NATO, the EU's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the EU and Secretary-General of the Western European Union.

• Introduction1. ‘There are More Important Things than Where the Border Runs’: The Other Side of George Kennan’s Containment Theory2. The Crisis of Spheres of Influence in the EU-Russia Relationship3. Borderline strategies: calibrated territorial expansionism in the game theory searchlight4. From ‘colony’ to ‘failing state’? Ukrainian sovereignty in the gaze of Russian foreign policy discourses5. Reconsidering Western concepts of the Ukrainian conflict: The rise to prominence of Russia’s "soft Power" policy6. Rising powers in the Contemporary World: Sources of Sustainability7. Governmentality Beyond the West: (post)political machineries in Ukraine and Russia8. Managing national ressentiment: morality politics in Putin’s Russia9. Stabilizing dispersed identities, or Why politics defines EU-Russia disconnections

Andrey Makarychev is Guest Professor at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Science, University of Tartu, Estonia. He has published many books and research articles on a variety of topics related to Russian foreign policy.Alexandra Yatsyk is Visiting Researcher at the Centre Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Uppsala, Sweden, and Head of the Centre for Cultural Studies of Post-Socialism, Kazan Federal University, Russia.

"An exceedingly timely volume critically rethinking the most substantial concepts of international political theories and giving valuable insights for a better understanding of current EU’s and Russia’s policies after the Ukraine crisis." - Javier Solana, former Secretary General of NATO, the EU's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the EU and Secretary-General of the Western European Union.

• Introduction1. ‘There are More Important Things than Where the Border Runs’: The Other Side of George Kennan’s Containment Theory2. The Crisis of Spheres of Influence in the EU-Russia Relationship3. Borderline strategies: calibrated territorial expansionism in the game theory searchlight4. From ‘colony’ to ‘failing state’? Ukrainian sovereignty in the gaze of Russian foreign policy discourses5. Reconsidering Western concepts of the Ukrainian conflict: The rise to prominence of Russia’s "soft Power" policy6. Rising powers in the Contemporary World: Sources of Sustainability7. Governmentality Beyond the West: (post)political machineries in Ukraine and Russia8. Managing national ressentiment: morality politics in Putin’s Russia9. Stabilizing dispersed identities, or Why politics defines EU-Russia disconnections