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EU-Russia Relations and Norm Diffusion: The Role of Non-state Actors

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The European Union (EU) and Russia have developed an intense dialogue that has been deepened and enlarged from the year 2000 onwards. Despite growing misunderstandings, the interaction in the institutional framework of cooperation has shown that the existence of a dialogue has been valuable to partially bring together mutual perceptions (especially the EU28 and the more assertive Russia). In some cases, the dialogue may be compared to a ‘dialogue of the deaf’ because Brussels would like to interact with a more European Russia and one which is convergent with its political values and economic rules; whereas Russia wants to be recognised as an equal partner, and is willing to redefine some rules of the international game.

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  1. Diplomacy and International Political Economy, Qatar University, Qatar

    Rémi Piet (Assistant Professor of Public Policy) (Assistant Professor of Public Policy)

  2. School of Economics of the University of Coimbra, Portugal

    Licínia Simão (Assistant Professor in International Relations) (Assistant Professor in International Relations)

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Fernandes, S. (2016). EU-Russia Relations and Norm Diffusion: The Role of Non-state Actors. In: Piet, R., Simão, L. (eds) Security in Shared Neighbourhoods. New Security Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137499103_5

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