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THE SOURCES OF RUSSIA'S GREAT POWER POLITICS IBD

E-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
05 / 2018
9781910814390
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Sinopsis

The 2014 Russia&ndash,Ukraine conflict has transformed relations between Russia and the West into what many are calling a new cold war. The West has slowly come to understand that Russia&rsquo,s annexations and interventions, interference in elections, cyber warfare, disinformation, assassinations in Europe and support for anti-EU populists emerge from Vladimir Putin&rsquo,s belief that Russia is at war with the West.This book shows that the crisis has deep roots in Russia&rsquo,s inability to come to terms with an independent Ukrainian state, Moscow&rsquo,s view of the Orange and Euromaidan revolutions as Western conspiracies and, finally, its inability to understand that most Russian-speaking Ukrainians do not want to rejoin Russia. In Moscow&rsquo,s eyes, Ukraine is central to rebuilding a sphere of influence within the former Soviet space and to re-establishing Russia as a great power. The book shows that the wide range of &lsquo,hybrid&rsquo, tactics that Russia has deployed show continuity with the actions of the Soviet-era security services.