Professor Richard Sakwa

The Putin Paradox

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Produktbeschreibung

Vladimir Putin has emerged as one of the key leaders of the twenty-first century. However, he is also recognized as one of the most divisive. Abroad, his assertion of Russia's interests and critique of the western-dominated international system has brought him into conflict with Atlantic powers. Within Russia, he has balanced various factions within the elite intelligentsia alongside the wider support of Russian society. So what is the 'Putin paradox?' Richard Sakwa grapples with Putin's personal and political development on both the international political scene and within the domestic political landscape of Russia. This study historicizes the Putin paradox, through theoretical, historical and political analysis and in light of wider developments in Russian society. Richard Sakwa presents the Putin paradox as a unique regime type - balancing numerous contradictions - in order to adapt to its material environment while maintaining sufficient authority with which to shape it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781838601270
• ISBN-10: 1838601279
• Artikelnr.: 56743710

Autorenporträt

Richard Sakwa

Inhaltsangabe

1. Putin and his times
From kommunalka to the Kremlin; The many Putins; The post-Cold War context;
The democracy paradox
2. State, society and regime
The birth of the regime-state; The meta-factions of Russian society; The
dual state and neo-patrimonialism; Reform, transition and beyond
3. Putin and politics
The state of exception and regionalism; Putin and the past; Anti-revolution
as a political practice; Putin's statecraft; Stasis, or the developmental
impasse
4. Politics and the third state
Regime reset; The third state and meta-corruption; The third state and
micro-factionalism
5. Managed capitalism
State and market; Economic performance and plans; Powering Putinism;
Sanctions and their effect
6. From partner to adversary: Russia and the West
The clash of post-Cold War world orders; The logic of Russian foreign
policy; A new era of confrontation
7. Recreating the heartland: Eurasian partnerships
Eurasian integration in perspective; The post-Atlantic world;Putin's Asian
gambit: escape from confrontation? Global Russia
8. The winds of change
Towards Putin's fourth term;The return of politics; The 2018 presidential
election; Challenges of Putin's fourth term
9. The Putin phenomenon
Putin's people and power; Is Putin an ism?; Putin's grand strategy
10. Paradoxes of Putinism
When success means failure; Towards the succession; Russia without Putin
Bibliography
Index