Neighbours, exceptions and the political: a vocabulary of EU-Russian inter-subjective (dis)connections
Neighbours, exceptions and the political: a vocabulary of EU-Russian inter-subjective (dis)connections

Author(s): Andrey S. Makarychev
Subject(s): Diplomatic history, International relations/trade, Politics and communication, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: EU-Russia inter-subjective (dis)connections; Political communication;
Summary/Abstract: The concept of this paper is grounded in the understanding of EU-Russian relations as an encounter of two subjects in transformation, conducive to the formation of a sphere of inter-subjective communications that might be either divisive or cooperative. Both connections and disconnections between these two international subjects are discursively moulded and, therefore, grounded in a certain type of vocabulary with a number of interrelated concepts at its core, including those of neighbourhood, exceptionality and the political. It is exactly through comprehending this vocabulary that one can unravel the logic of deep asymmetry embedded in the EU-Russian relationship.

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