Russia : great power, weakened state
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Russia : great power, weakened state
Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2023
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-242) and index
Contents of Works
- Territorial fatigue : external borders challenged and domestic development unbalanced
- Russia's multiple and troubled identities : diversity, decline, and migration
- Russian society : fragmented but resilient
- The political system : a consensus undermined by fear and repression
- The economy : from the quest for sovereignty to war economy
- From Eurasia to the whole world : the double-hedged eagle challenges global equilibriums
- Russia and the world in a time of war : besieged fortress and new crusader
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Description
Russia inspires fear. For decades, American presidents viewed the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," and now, the Ukrainian crisis has added a new chapter to this narrative inherited from the Cold War. Russia's behavior is regarded with distrust and its "nuisance power" arouses frustration. The country's image has not been so negative since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
But at the same time-and this is a key point of this book-Russia is fearful, too. Thirty years after the end of the Soviet Union, multiple ghosts haunt the country, its elites, and its society, from concern over demographic and economic decline to worry about the country's vulnerability to external intervention, reviving the old notion of Russia as a "besieged fortress." Opened up practically overnight under President Boris Yeltsin, the country had to deal with a rapid and violent globalization. Faced with both a West that emerged victorious from the Cold War and a shockingly dynamic China, Russia constantly questions its identity and the notion that its fate is to bridge East and West. Vacillating between reformist aspirations and a fear of liberal society, which is often portrayed as amoral and perverse, the country, and certainly its leader Vladamir Putin, sometimes seems tempted to take refuge in a new isolation.
This book is more than timely: no other book offers a comprehensive overview of Russia's fears and challenges that could help the American public to understand how the country deals with its own issues and how this influences Russia's foreign policy, including the ongoing war in Ukraine. This in-out aspect is critical to understand the country's international stance and therefore directly US policy and security.
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