Bulletin n. 1/2015
June 2015
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Flenley Paul
    The Partnership for Modernisation: Contradictions of the Russian Modernisation Agenda
    in Perspectives on European Politics and Society , vol. 16, n. 1, Special Issue: Modernisation in EU-Russian Relations: Past, Present and Future ,  2015 ,  11-26
    The Partnership for Modernisation was an attempt to re-set the EU–Russia relationship. This article discusses how far modernisation can be the basis for a more productive relationship. The article argues that rather than a shared approach with the EU there is a particular, historical Russian approach to modernisation. It discusses how far this constitutes a separate model and identifies a range of problems such as corruption and human rights which undermine this model even in its own terms. The article suggests that modernisation is indeed a basis for a continuing EU–Russia partnership, in spite of recent crises. However, it has to be a partnership which accepts the specificity of Russian development yet also helps deliver a more sustainable path of modernisation.
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