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Avoiding the Exclusive Integration Trap: Envisioning Russian Foreign Policy in the Asian-Pacific

... an EU association to Ukraine as a means of containing or isolating Russia. Indeed, Russian policymakers repeatedly pushed for a tri-party Russia-Ukraine-EU association, which would have minimized the possibility of excluding Russia from the regional integration process. Considering Russia’s grave contribution to European livelihood and economic activities (in terms of reliable and cost-competitive energy), EU’s political motto “We want Ukraine but not Russia” was indeed diplomatically ...