Seminar June 2: Russia’s Leadership in Eurasia: Holding Together or Falling Apart?”

Seminar June 2: Russian-led Eurasia: still holding together, but for how long?

🎤Sean Roberts, Senior Lecturer and Ulrike Ziemer PhD, Senior Lecturer, both from University of Winchester
📅June 2, 13:15-15:00
🏢Zoom: https://lnkd.in/eFB3P9Ua

Abstract: Developments in the post-Soviet space continue to raise important questions on the strength of Russia’s regional leadership. However, gauging the cohesion of Russian-led Eurasia is complicated by competing images of Russia’s relations with long-standing allies—notably Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan—which are often portrayed in terms of a ‘community of fate’ or partners destined for closer integration but also as a ‘community of fortune’ or ad hoc, situational partners, loosely centered on Russia. By drawing on the English School of International Relations and considering Russian-led Eurasia as an example of a nascent, regional interstate society, bound together by shared interests and values but also Russian hegemony, we understand how Russia’s ‘rights’ and ‘responsibilities’ serve to simultaneously unite and divide the region.