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Understanding Russian Strategic Behavior: Imperial Culture and Putin's Operational Code
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Understanding Russian Strategic Behavior: Imperial Culture and Putin's Operational Code
Current price: $180.00
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Understanding Russian Strategic Behavior: Imperial Culture and Putin's Operational Code
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The work argues that, by conflating personalistic regime survival with national security, Putin ensures that contemporary Russian national interest, as expressed through strategic behavior, is the synthesis of a peculiar
: a long-standing imperial strategic culture, rooted in a partially imagined past; the operational code of a counter-intelligence president and decision-making elite; and the realities of Russia as a hybrid state. The book first examines the role of structure and agency in shaping contemporary Russian strategic behavior. It then provides a conceptual understanding of strategic culture, and applies this to
and Soviet historical developments. The book’s analysis of the operational code, however, demonstrates that Putinism is more than the sum of the past. At the end, the book assesses Putin’s statecraft and stress-tests our assumptions about the exercise of contemporary power in Russia and the structure of Putin’s agency.
This book will be of interest to students of Russian politics and foreign policy, strategic studies and international relations.