International Relations in the Post-Soviet Space

2023/2024

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'

Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'

Type: Mago-Lego

Delivered by: Department of Political Science and International Affairs

When: 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Паникар Марина Михайловна

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 24

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Abstract

The course is aimed at forming a holistic view of international relations in the CIS. It involves studying the stages and directions of multilateral cooperation of the states, political cooperation and cooperation in the field of collective security in the CIS. Special attention is paid to the conflict prevention and resolution in the CIS countries.

Learning Objectives

to study the post-Soviet area as a subsystem of international relations and geopolitical region

Expected Learning Outcomes

• to study the geopolitical post-Soviet space
• to know the key regional and non-regional actors in the post-Soviet area and their policy towards the region
• to know the key formats of the international cooperation in the post-Soviet space
• to study the main reasons and historical stages of the regional conflicts (Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, South-Eastern part of Ukraine)
• to be able to conduct the conflict analysis as a systematic study of the profile, causes, actors, and dynamics of conflict

Course Contents

Defining the Post-Soviet region
The characteristics of the Post-Soviet space (economic and security issues)
International organizations in the post-Soviet area. Foreign policy of the post-Soviet states
Foreign policy of the post-Soviet states of Central Asia
Conflicts in the Post-Soviet space

Assessment Elements

Individual assignment
The induvial assignment will be exercised individually and will consist of two tasks: reading the recommended literature and completing a written assignment. It is dedicated to the studying the strategy of the non-regional actors towards the states of the post-Soviet area. It must be completed by the end of the course
Class participation
Essay
An essay on one of the topics of the course will be offered to the students with the aim to check their knowledge in the field of the geopolitical conflicts in the post-Soviet area as well as their resolution. The essay must be 100 percent original text, without the use of artificial intelligence.

Interim Assessment

2023/2024 4th module
0.3 * Class participation + 0.4 * Essay + 0.3 * Individual assignment

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Czachor, R. (2016). Between sustainability and uncertainty. Political systems of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic – conditions and features. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.D72D8333
Dadabaev, T. (2014). Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Regional Identity Formation from the Perspective of the Central Asia States. Journal of Contemporary China, 23(85), 102–118. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2013.809982
Delcour, L. (2015). Between the Eastern Partnership and Eurasian Integration: Explaining Post-Soviet Countries’ Engagement in (Competing) Region-Building Projects. Problems of Post-Communism, 62(6), 316–327. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2015.1057075
Golub K., Golub Y., & International Organisations Research Journal. (2018). Collective Security Treaty Organization: Origins of the Multidimensional Mandate and Modern Means for its Implementation. International Organisations Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.17323/1996-7845-2018-01-11
Jones Luong, P. (DE-588)124303307, (DE-576)18499859X. (2002). Institutional change and political continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia : power, perceptions, and pacts / Pauline Jones Luong. Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.098176676
Kembayev, Z. (2009). Legal Aspects of the Regional Integration Processes in the Post-Soviet Area. Berlin: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=276397
Maxim Bratersky. (2016). Isolationism versus Geopolitics: The Dual Role of the Eurasian Economic Union in Global Governance. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.4D1825FB
Ohannes Geukjian. (2011). Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in the South Caucasus : Nagorno-Karabakh and the Legacy of Soviet Nationalities Policy. Routledge.
Olga Alinda Spaiser. (2018). The European Union’s Influence in Central Asia : Geopolitical Challenges and Responses. Lexington Books.
Stephan Barisitz. (2017). Central Asia and the Silk Road : Economic Rise and Decline Over Several Millennia. Springer.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Cooley, A. (DE-588)136544118, (DE-576)268032912. (2012). Great games, local rules : the new great power contest in Central Asia / Alexander Cooley. Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.370075730
Wiśniewska, I. (DE-588)1157021379, (DE-576)187539073. (2013). Eurasian integration : Russia’s attempt at the economic unification of the Post-Soviet area / Iwona Wiśniewska ; Co-operation: Ewa Fischer, Wojciech Górecki, Szymon Kardaś, Marek Menkiszak, Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga. Centre for Eastern Studies.
Zhang, X., Li, L., & Gabuev, A. (2016). Competition or Coordination? The Eurasian Economic Union and China’s, One Belt, One Road Initiative. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.A0E28AE9

Authors

IVANOVA ANASTASIYA SERGEEVNA
PANIKAR MARINA Mikhailovna

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