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Russia’s relations with the West have been at the heart of Russian political philosophy and Russia’s foreign policy for centuries. This chapter reviews the history of Russia’s post-Cold War relations with other Arctic states, especially Norway. Relations with Norway tend to follow the wider fluctuations in Russian foreign policy: openness to Western influence in the early post-Cold War years; a resurgence of scepticism and suspicion in the years straddling the transition to the 21st century, followed by the pragmatism of the 2000s. Based on new empirical evidence from the public discourse in Russia, this chapter engages with the Russian idea that the West is trying to encircle Russia in the Arctic.
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G. Hønneland and L. Rowe (2004) Health as International Politics: Combating Communicable Diseases in the Baltic Sea Region (Aldershot: Ashgate).
These quotations are partly paraphrased ‘summaries’ of statements dominating our interview material. See Hønneland and Rowe (2004) Health as International Politics, pp. 91–4, for an explanation of how we categorized our interviewees.
I. B. Neumann (1996) Russia and the Idea of Europe: A Study in Identity and International Relations (London: Routledge).
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See, for example, J. Mankoff (2012) Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield).
See, for example, Rybnaya stolitsa, no. 24, 2001. Russian reactions to these events are discussed in detail in G. Hønneland (2003) Russia and the West: Environmental Cooperation and Conflict (London: Routledge).
J. H. Jørgensen (2003) Svalbard og Fiskevernsonen: Russiske persepsjoner etter den kalde krigen, FNI Report 13/2003 (Lysaker: Fridtjof Nansen Institute). All interview excerpts are from chapter 4, pp. 36–46 of this report. Original references are given for excerpts from newspapers and journals, but not for the author’s personal interviews.
Interview, Moscow, February 2000. See also G. Hønneland and A. Moe (2000) Evaluation of the Norwegian Plan of Action for Nuclear Safety: Priorities, Organisation, Implementation, Evaluation Report 7/2000 (Oslo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
Interview, Moscow, April 2000. See also Hønneland and Moe (2000) Evaluation of the Norwegian Plan of Action for Nuclear Safety.
Interview, Moscow, December 2007. See also B. Aasjord and G. Hønneland (2008) ‘Hvem kan telle “den fisk under vann”? Kunnskapsstrid i russisk havforskning’, Nordisk Østforum, 22, 289–312.
T. V. Århus (2012) Maritim mistru og petroleumspartnarskap: Ein diskursanalyse av russiske reaksjonar på norsk nordområdepolitikk, MA thesis (Oslo: Department of European and American Studies — Russian Studies, University of Oslo). See pp. 10–11 for details on the Russian newspapers, web sites, and periodicals included in the searches.
See G. Hønneland (2003) Russia and the West.
M. Perelman (2000) ‘Tuberculosis in Russia’, International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 4, 1097–103, p. 1102.
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Hønneland, G. (2014). Russia and the West — The Foreign Policy Perspective. In: Arctic Politics, the Law of the Sea and Russian Identity: The Barents Sea Delimitation Agreement in Russian Public Debate. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137414069_4
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