The narratives of exclusion and self-exclusion in the Russian conflict discourse on EU-Russian Relations

被引:18
作者
Prozorov, Sergei [1 ]
机构
[1] Petrozavodsk State Univ, Dept Int Relat, Petrozavodsk 185000, Russia
关键词
Russia; European Union; integration; geopolitics; liberalism; conservatism; conflict; discourse;
D O I
10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.10.015
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学]; K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
The article focuses on the interplay of the narratives of 'exclusion' and 'self-exclusion' in the Russian discourse on EU-Russian relations. Since the late 1990s, this discourse has acquired an increasingly conflictual orientation, whereby the official foreign policy objectives of 'strategic partnership' with the EU and Russia's 'integration with Europe' are increasingly problematised across the entire Russian political spectrum. In the analysis of the Russian conflict discourse we shall identify two at first glance opposed narratives. Firstly, the EU enlargement has raised the issue of the expansion of the Schengen visa regime for Russian citizens, travelling to Europe. Particularly acute with regard to Kaliningrad Oblast', this issue has also generated a wider identity-related discourse on the EU's exclusionary policies towards Russia. Secondly, the perception of Russia's passive or subordinate status in EU-Russian cooperative arrangements at national, regional and local levels resulted in the problematisation of the insufficiently reciprocal or intersubjective nature of the EU-Russian 'partnership" and the increasing tendency towards Russia's 'self-exclusion' from integrative processes, grounded in the reaffirmation of state sovereignty that generally characterises the Putin presidency. This article concludes with the interpretation of the two conflict narratives in the wider context of debates around the project of European integration. (C) 2006 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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页码:309 / 329
页数:21
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