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The Russian Federation is the largest state in Europe, indeed anywhere. Ukraine is the second largest. The other Slavic republic that became independent in 1991, Belarus, is also entirely European in its geographical location. And yet all three have often interpreted their ‘Europeanness’ in ways that have been different from interpretations elsewhere on the continent. In particular, the ‘Europes’ they have sought to confront, cooperate with or even join have often been different from the ‘Europe’ of the European Union and its full-time officials in Brussels. In the chapters that follow we will seek to identify these various perspectives by investigating Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian identities and the ways in which they shaped their countries’ perceptions of ‘Europe’ in the post-Soviet period and underpinned their respective foreign policies. An understanding of these factors is fundamental in its turn if we are to explain the apparent stalemate that has developed in state-to-state relations, and perhaps help to overcome it. We start with an examination of the highly contested notion of ‘Europe’ in the post-Soviet context, and then move on to consider the various ways in which it has engaged policymakers as well as the wider society over long periods of time. The last part of the chapter presents our conceptual framework, explains our methodological choices, and sets out the structure of the book as a whole.
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By investigating competing views about the EU held by Russian elites, we seek in this respect to make a significant contribution to the rapidly developing literature on external perceptions of the EU across the world. See, for example, Sonia Lucarelli and Lorenzo Fioramonti, eds, External Perceptions of the European Union as a Global Actor (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2010). For Russian views of the EU, see Mara Morini, Roberto Peruzzi and Arlo Poletti, ‘Eastern giants: The EU in the Eyes of Russia and China’, in Lucarelli and Fioramonti, eds, External Perceptions of the European Union as a Global Actor, pp. 32–51.
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White, S., Feklyunina, V. (2014). Other ‘Europes’. In: Identities and Foreign Policies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137453112_1
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