Price: $102.80
While the advantages of regional integration are well-studied, there exists a significant knowledge gap when it comes to regions that lack a robust political and economic framework, or in some cases, have none at all. Moreover, the strategy of deliberate “un-regioning,” applied by both external and internal actors to a region, has largely been overlooked, despite its increasingly complex modern application, particularly by Russia in its surrounding regions.
This insightful volume illuminates our understanding of what Anna Ohanyan terms as “fractured regions” and their implications for global security in the contemporary world. Ohanyan propounds a groundbreaking theory of regional fracture to elucidate how and why regions disintegrate, solidify dysfunctional relationships within, and give rise to weak states.
In “Russia Abroad”, the focus is specifically on how Russia employs regional fracture as a stratagem to maintain the states in its Eurasian and Middle Eastern periphery weak and within its sphere of influence. The book posits that the degree of regional maturity in Russia’s vast vicinities plays a crucial role in shaping Russian foreign policy in the emerging multipolar global order.
Many of these fractured regions pose significant global security threats, as weak states often become hotspots for transnational crime, safe havens for militants, or battlegrounds for prolonged conflicts. The regional fracture theory is presented as a novel viewpoint on the post-American world, promoting a broader understanding in international relations scholarship on comparative regionalism.