Overview
- Considers the extent to which the EU is an external actor and helps to inform foreign policy analysis more broadly
- Engages both with how the US and EU regard each other’s relationship with Russia, but also how Russia and Ukraine perceive western powers
- Contributes to policy debates on the EU as a global actor, current EU-US relations and the effectiveness of the transatlantic alliance
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This book examines the crisis in Ukraine through the lens of “triangular diplomacy,” which focuses on the multiple interactions among the European Union, the United States and Russia. It is explicitly comparative, considering how the US and EU responded to ostensibly the same crisis. It also adopts a “360-degree” perspective, focusing on how the US and EU interacted in their dealings with Russia, and how Russia and Ukraine have responded. Chapters focus on each of the four protagonists – the EU, the US, Russia and Ukraine – and on key, cross-cutting aspects of the crisis – sanctions, international law and energy. The book thus contrasts a conventional, if exceptional, great power – the US – with a very non-traditional foreign policy actor – the EU. It would be suitable for both undergraduate and graduate courses on the EU’s external policies and engagement in world affairs, EU-US relations, EU-Russia interactions, or regional security issues.
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Keywords
- relationship between the US and Russia
- relationship between the EU and Russia
- US response to the crisis in Ukraine
- the EU's response to the crisis in Ukraine
- international law
- sanctions on Russia
- America's foreign policy
- foreign policy of the EU
- EU's external policies
- EU-US relations
- EU-Russia interactions
- regional security issues
- Obama Administration's foreign policy
- transatlantic alliance
- the EU as a global actor
- international sanctions
- triangular diplomacy
- European Union politics
- us politics
- russian and post-soviet politics
Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Vicki L. Birchfield is Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech, USA, and Co-Director of the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies, a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence.
Alasdair R. Young is Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech, USA, and Co-Director of the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies, a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence. He is chair of the European Union Studies Association in the USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Triangular Diplomacy among the United States, the European Union, and the Russian Federation
Book Subtitle: Responses to the Crisis in Ukraine
Editors: Vicki L. Birchfield, Alasdair R. Young
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63435-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63434-0Published: 02 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87555-2Published: 22 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63435-7Published: 15 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 232
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, US Politics, European Union Politics, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics