Russia and Europe: Conflict or Cooperation? - by M Webber (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This volume focuses on how Russian policy toward Europe (and sometimes, by extension, the West more broadly) has developed since the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It argues that important aspects of cooperation have endured in the relationship despite all the vicissitudes of Russian domestic politics and at a time of flux in the international relations of the European continent. This cooperation has, at times, been fragile and has not prevented some obvious and deep-seated disagreements. It has, however, survived. Indeed, Russia and Europe have increasingly 'routinized' their relationship in a range of formal multilateral institutions.

About the Author

MARK WEBBER is Lecturer in Politics in the Department of European Studies, Loughborough University. He is the author of The International Politics of Russia and the Successor States (1996), CIS Integration Trends and the Russia and the Former Soviet South (1997), and a co-author of The Enlargement of Europe (1999).