Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 518 g
Fragile State and Revisionist Power
Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 518 g
ISBN: 978-1-4214-5192-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Compelling essays reveal Russia as a declining, fragile power that still harbors imperialist ambitions.
In Russia Under Putin, editor Andrew S. Natsios brings together an esteemed group of scholars to explore the complex duality of Vladimir Putin's Russia. As they track Putin's rise from a former KGB officer to one of the world's most powerful leaders, these essays confront an urgent global question: Is Russia a declining state on an unstable foundation, or is it a dangerous, revisionist power?
The book's contributors reveal how Russia—despite internal weaknesses that include a shrinking population, corruption, and economic dependency on volatile oil revenues—has become a well-armed state intent on undermining the international order. Through an examination of Russia's military invasions of Ukraine, its increasing reliance on cyber warfare, and its internal suppression of civil liberties, the authors argue that Russia's trajectory under Putin is both destabilizing and ominous. Putin has tried to increase the size of the population through pronatalist policies that failed and so has resorted to annexing neighboring states like Ukraine as a solution to the demographic emergency. Meanwhile, Moscow has adopted an extreme, right-wing, ultra-nationalist ideology that dominates discourse among the elites.
As the world watches Russia's aggressive foreign policies unfold, Natsios and the book's contributors illustrate how the decline of this nuclear-armed state presents profound risks to global stability. The essays draw comparisons to past authoritarian regimes while offering a stark warning: Even a fragile power can wreak global havoc. Engaging, timely, and thought-provoking, Russia Under Putin provides a nuanced view of a country whose ambitions will shape the twenty-first century—for better or worse.
Contributors: Anders Åslund, Alexandra Chinchilla, James S. Corum, Lynn Corum, Nicholas Eberstadt, Raymond C. Finch III, Paul Gregory, Scott Jasper, Todd Lefko, Andrew S. Natsios, Serhii Plokhy, Roger R. Reese, Raymond Robertson, Kathryn Stoner
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Introduction. Andrew S. Natsios
Part I: The Russian State Under Putin
1. Russia's Domestic Politics Under Putin, by Kathryn Stoner
2. The Role of Power and Wealth in Putin's Russia, by Anders Åslund
3. Vladimir Putin and the Russian Military, by Alexandra Chincilla and Raymond C. Finch III
4. Russian Cyber Warfare, by Scott Jasper
5. Putin's Economy and the Global Economic System, by Paul Gregory
6. Russian Power in Decline: A Demographic and Human Resource Perspective, by Nicholas Eberstadt
Part II: The Mythology of the Putin State
7. The End of Glory? Putin's Use and Abuse of the Legacy of the Second World War, by Roger Reese
8. Project Russia: The Bestselling Book Series of Putin's Kremlin Terror, by Lynn Corum
Part III: The Russian Revisionist Foreign Policy
9. The Return of the Empire: The Ukraine Crisis and the Russo-Ukrainian War in the Historical Perspective, by Serhii Plokhy
10. Russia, Demography and Putin's Hidden Agenda, by Andrew Natsios
11. A View from Northeastern Europe: The Baltic States and the Russian Regime, by James Corum
12. Economic Implications of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, by Todd J. Lefko and Raymond Robertson
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