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Statism in Russia: The implications for US–Russian relations
This essay seeks to identify and assess the general shift in Russian foreign policy thinking during Vladimir Putin’s presidency. The main thesis of this essay is that a general shift in Russian foreign policy had occurred during Putin’s presidency owing ...
Shavkat Kasymov
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Vladimir Putin, Twenty Years On: Russia’s Foreign Policy
This article touches upon the main dynamics in Russian foreign policy since Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000. Following a Constructivist approach to the analysis of foreign policy, the article positions this study at the intersection of domestic ...
Maria Raquel Freire
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Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
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Russia’s soft security policy: 2000 – 2012 [PDF]
In the post-Soviet era, Russia has encountered several asymmetric threats which cannot be solved by using conventional forces. Especially after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the U.S., Russia has recognized the importance of non-military ...
Murat Yorulmaz
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When western leadership models become a mixed blessing
Russia plunged into a deep leadership crisis after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The attempt to implement western leadership models only deepened the crisis.
J. Reimer
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Abstract This article reconsiders the relationship between visibility and politicization. Drawing on empirical evidence from urban mobilization campaigns across Russia, we counter the existing literature on theories of the post‐political and liminality by identifying four dimensions of visibility—publicity in urban space, objects of urban contestation,
Valeria Rumiantseva, Liubov Chernysheva
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Vladimir Poutine et la presse espagnole
When comparing the transcription of the press conference held by Vladimir Putin on the eve of G8 Summit held in Germany in June 2007, with the so-called verbatim text published by the Spanish daily El Mundo, the analyst may legitimately wonder whether ...
Setty Alaoui Moretti
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
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European Populism and the War in Ukraine: Populist Narratives in Support of Vladimir Putin
European illiberal populists have not been very shy about their association with the RussianFederation’s Vladimir Putin. Many of them have even hailed the Russian President as a stalwart exam-ple against the liberal democratic institutions that define ...
Vlad BUJDEI-TEBEICA
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Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy
Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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