Vocabularies of International Relations after the Crisis in Ukraine

Andrey Makarychev is Guest Professor of Politics and Governance at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He is widely published on a variety of topics related to Russian foreign policy, including a co-edited volume with Routledge, 2014, a monograph with Ibidem & Columbia University Press, 2014, book chapters in edited volumes with Palgrave Macmillan, Ashgate, Wiley Blackwell and other publishers, and research articles in major peer-reviewed international journals such as Problems of Post-Communism, Journal of International Relations and Development, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Eurasian Studies, Demokratizatsiya, European Urban and Regional Studies and others. Alexandra Yatsyk is Carnegie Research Scholar at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University, USA) and Head of the Centre for Cultural Studies of Post-Socialism (Kazan Federal University, Russia). She has also worked as a lecturer and a visiting researcher at the School of Language, Translation and Literature Studies (University of Tampere, Finland), the Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine), and the Centre for EU-Russia Studies (University of Tartu, Estonia). Her research interests include representations of post-Soviet national identities, sports and cultural mega-events, Russia’s protest art, and biopolitics. She is author of chapters published with Palgrave Macmillan (2015), and articles in European Urban and Regional Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, International Spectator, Digital Icons, and other journals.

"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