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
    • Gromyko Alexey
    Smaller or Greater Europe?
    in Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali , Volume 81, n. 4, ottobre-dicembre ,  2014 ,  517-526
    The Author states that the national interests of Russia with its vast territory, innumerable natural and mineral resources, a well-educated labour force and valuable human capital demand from Russia strategic relations with Europe, Asia and other regions and continents, in other words: a transregional foreign policy with global elements. He elaborates the idea that in recent decades the European Union (or Smaller Europe to be distinguished from Greater Europe, which includes Russia and other non-Eu countries) has turned into a significant player on the global scene. In parallel, he is analysing the idea of polycentricity, noting that it has been accelerated by the global crisis. After the period of deep rifts in the Euroatlantic community, caused by the Iraq intervention and other controversies, geopolitical disagreements have faded. From the Author’s point of view, this does not mean that the divergence between the allies in 2003 was an aberration. On the contrary, those events demonstrated that in Smaller Europe there is a profound potential to establish its own vision of regional and global problems. In the concluding part of the paper the Author deliberates on the Ukrainian crisis, pointing out that it has created one more setback on the way of the Eu acquiring its autonomous foreign and security policy and strategic vision. The crisis has been used for the new round of the Euroatlantic consolidation, which in the beginning of the XXI century was getting more and more pluralistic. The Author deplores that this consolidation is based on the well-known and regrettable tune: the «threat from the East»
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