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Mar 22, 2024 · The shift in their language suggests that Putin, encouraged by Russian advances in the past few weeks and delays in the supply of new U.S. aid to Ukraine, has now turned the war into the...
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While usually associated with Putin, Russia’s contemporary activist foreign policy was, in fact, launched before he even became president. It was first launched by Yevgeny Primakov, who was appointed Russian foreign minister in 1996. He formulated what became known as the Primakov Doctrine. According to Primakov, Russia would no longer follow the l...
Contemporary Russian foreign policy displays the unmistakable presence of three centuries-old drivers of Moscow’s posture on the world stage. Chief among these drivers is Russia’s quest for strategic depth and secure buffers against external threats, which, considering the country’s geography and absence of natural protective barriers between it an...
In addition to a legacy of complicated geopolitics, great power ambitions, and a difficult relationship with the West, the new Russian state has inherited from its Soviet predecessor a time-tested foreign policy toolkit. While some elements of this toolkit fell into disuse early in the post-Soviet period when Russia was struggling with a series of ...
In March 1918, the desperate new Bolshevik government of Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which enabled it to leave World War I. Politically, economically, and militarily, the country was in ruins. The Bolsheviks retreated from vast holdings of the Russian Empire—most of Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states, and Finland in Europe. ...
1 “Lavrov Predicts Historians May Coin New Term: The Primakov Doctrine,” TASS, October 28, 2014, http://tass.com/russia/756973. 2 Nicolai Petro and Alvin Rubinstein, Russian Foreign Policy: From Empire to Nation State(New York, NY: Longman, 1997). 3 Stephen Kotkin, “Russia’s Perpetual Geopolitics,” Foreign Affairs, April 18, 2016, https://www.forei...
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Jan 18, 2022 · The question is why? What makes Russia such an enduring geopolitical actor? One answer may be provided by a recent work by John LeDonne, a historian of Russia who has written several books, including the only study of Russia’s grand strategy, The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650-1831, (Oxford University Press, 2004).
In Understanding the Russian Military Today, a five-day, professional development program, participants explored all the elements of Russian military power: its composition and prospects, its social and historical foundations, its doctrine, and current operations. Through interactive seminars and hands-on simulation exercises, think tank ...
Dec 8, 2020 · It includes a consideration of Russia–Europe relations and consequences for the political and economic futures of Eastern European countries, including the Baltic States. The chapter also discusses the impact that Russian–Chinese cooperation may have on the global balance of power and Asia’s geopolitical order.
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Jun 25, 2022 · Since the 2010s, the theory of critical geopolitics has become more widespread in Russia, operating not with speculative reasoning, but with large amounts of information analyzed by modern quantitative methods. The flow of studies of state borders and frontiers is growing.
Jan 20, 2023 · As researchers at RUSI argue, “The decision to ideologically mobilize the Russian public for war with the use of increasingly radicalizing language was not a nationalistic response to events but was instead directed centrally . . . to put Russia on a war footing.” This message could resonate with some Russians, stabilize support for the war ...
