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RUSSIA'S PRAGMATIC REIMPERIALIZATION.
RUSSIA'S PRAGMATIC REIMPERIALIZATION.
- Source :
- Caucasian Review of International Affairs; Jan2010, Vol. 4 Issue 1, p3-19, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- The Russian authorities are engaged in a policy of "pragmatic reimperialization" in seeking to restore Moscow's regional dominance, undermining U.S. global influence, dividing the NATO alliance, neutralizing the European Union (EU), limiting further NATO and EU enlargement, and re-establishing zones of "privileged interest" in the former Soviet bloc, where pliant governments are targeted through economic, political, and security instruments. Russia's strategies are pragmatic and opportunistic by avoiding ideology and political partisanship and focusing instead on an assortment of threats, pressures, inducements, and incentives. Despite its expansive ambitions, the Russian Federation is - potentially - a failing state, and may be resorting to increasingly desperate imperial reactions to intractable internal problems that could presage the country's territorial disintegration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COMMUNIST countries
PARTISANSHIP
IDEOLOGY
POLITICAL movements
POLITICAL restorations
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18656773
- Volume :
- 4
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Caucasian Review of International Affairs
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 51361290