2025/2026
EU–Russia Strategic Studies: the Politics, Conflict and Theory of a 'Strategic Partnership'
ID 956050
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Mago-Lego
Delivered by:
School of Politics and Governance
Where:
Faculty of Social Sciences
When:
1, 2 module
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
40
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The European Union (EU) and Russia’s relationship has been described as a ‘troubled’ bilateral association of the contemporary global moment. These troubles have been defined by justifications of independent ‘security strategies’ that refer to an ongoing project of UN reform, ‘treaty–like’ and intermittent political settlements of regional order, and like–for–like ‘mission’(s) of regional governance into states of the lands between. These ‘mission’(s), initially into Serbia and Georgia in 2008 and subsequently into Ukraine since 2013–14, are the events when the ‘troubles’ in this relationship have flared up and seemed most obvious and intractable to policymakers at the center of them, and to the wider world.