Richard Sakwa

The Putin Paradox (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781838603717
• Artikelnr.: 58391386

Autorenporträt

Richard Sakwa is Emeritus Professor of Russian and European Politics and Head of the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, UK. He is author of The Putin Paradox (2020), Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair (2014), The Crisis of Russian Democracy (2010) and Russian Politics and Society (2008).

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