Cooperation and Isolation: Understanding EU-Russia Dialogue

Cooperation and Isolation: Understanding EU-Russia Dialogue

The promising agenda of EU-Russia cooperation has resulted in mutual frustration manifested in continuous, paradoxical crises and isolation between the partners. This article offers a possible way to reflect on an uneasy EU-Russia relationship. In this study, I make problems in EU-Russia cooperation discursively visible by scrutinizing the official speech acts articulated in EU-Russia political and security discourse. I demonstrate that these official speech acts create conditions for a responsive dialogue and, eventually, form a set of prevalent discursive practices that re-produce and reinforce problems in EU-Russia cooperation. Blending Bakhtin‟s dialogic analysis and Onuf‟s constructivist accounts, I strike a balance between theoretical and empirical analyses and develop a model for understanding current and possible future events in the EU-Russia partnership. This model of international cooperation can be transferable beyond its borders to similar examples of relationships currently existing all over the world.
 
Full text available at: https://doi.org/10.22215/rera.v6i1.206

Chebakova, Anastasia

Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies; 2011: RERA V6:1 Fall 2011 (backfile abstracts)

2562-8429

10.22215/cjers.v6i1

Centre for European Studies, Carleton University

2011-08-01

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Peer-reviewed Article