Юрий Акимов выступил на конференции "Fifth annual Tartu conference on Russian and east European studies: Post-socialist (dis)orders"

6-8 июня ведущий научный сотрудник лаборатории Юрий Акимов принял участие в конференции "Fifth annual Tartu conference on Russian and east European studies: Post-socialist (dis)orders" (Тарту, Эстония), где выступил с докладом “The Rise of Paradiplomacy of the Subjects of Federation and the Russian foreign policy in the first half of 1990s.”

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Аннотация доклада:

The paper deals with the rise of paradiplomacy of the Subjects of Russian Federation in the first half of 1990s. It was a period of so-called parade of sovereignties in the former Soviet Union. In the 1990s, the federal system of the Russian Federation was primarily an “elite bargain”. It hardly resembled real federalism. The relationships between the center and the subjects of federation were extremely politicized and personalized

It is in those conditions that the subjects of the Russian Federation started to develop their own contacts with foreign partners. This process was swift and chaotic. It’s evident that the rise of subjects’ paradiplomacy was facilitated by political instability, economic crisis, transition character of regime, democratization of government, opening of the borders etc.

All subjects of the Russian Federation which established relations with foreign states and/or sub-national actors pursued primarily economic goals, i.e. attraction of investment and technologies, development of trade and tourism and so on. From 1991 to 1995, the subjects of the Russian Federation had signed more than 300 agreements with foreign partners.

Some subjects of federation, namely republics, regarded paradiplomacy as a means of their nation-building. This process was defined by Stéphane Paquin as identity paradiplomacy. The paper also provides case-studies of the paradiplomacy of Tatarstan, Karelia, Sakha (Yakutia) and some other subjects of Russian Federation, most visible at the world stage at that period.

Special attention is given to interconnection between the subjects’ paradiplomacy and foreign policy of the federal government which tried to control it.

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