Pathways After Empire: National Identity and Foreign Economic Policy in the Post-Soviet World (New International Reslations of Europe)
Автор:Andrei P. Tsygankov Год: [не указано] Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 0742516733 This book explores how culture shapes foreign economic policy in post-Soviet states. After the Soviet empire fragmented, some of the newly emerged nations directed their economic activities primarily toward Russia and other former republics, while othersturned sharply away from the Soviet bloc. Taking a constructivist approach, Andrei Tsygankov explains the striking variation by making the original argument that a new state's strength of national identity shapes its foreign economic policy. The strongerthe identity, the more likely the new state was to shift away from the empire. Drawing on detailed case studies of Latvia, Ukraine, and Belarus, the author demonstrates how the Baltic nations, with a strong sense of identity, chose to deal with Russia and other ex-Soviet nations on a strictly bilateral basis and entered preferential arrangements with European countries. Ukraine, with moderate identity strength, pursued active economic relations with both Russia and Europe. Finally,...
