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Lonely power : why Russia has failed to become the West and the West is weary of Russia /
Today's Russia proves that appearances can be deceiving. The Kremlin's modernization mantra and liberal rhetoric attempt to keep alive a system based on personalized power. While rapprochement with the West is seen as a way to import technology, attract investment, and gain economically, R...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Ruso |
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Washington, DC :
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Jessica T. Matthews
- Letter to the reader
- Introduction
- Collapse of the USSR : The West caught unawares
- The West regards Yeltsin warily
- Help or wait?
- Clinton turns the West around
- Help our friend Boris at any cost
- Europe also helps
- Washington's dictate or Moscow"s?
- Moments of truth for Russia
- Western disillusionment in Russia and Republican attacks on Democrats in the United States
- The donors could not resist temptation
- The results of the 1990s : Who is to blame?
- The arrival of Putin and his Western project
- Hopes that once again did not come to pass
- With the West and against the West
- Altruism and pragmatism
- Where Western money goes
- The Medvedev-Putin tandem being tested by foreign policy
- The war in the Caucasus and what it says about Russia
- The Kremlin starts rebuilding bridges with the West
- How to force the West to work for Russia
- The Valdai Club, or the Kremlin and Western commentators
- And now for the major victories
- How Russia was humiliated
- Is there a reason to take offense?
- On the "center of power," "de-sovereignization," and other things
- America the model, and America the excuse
- Who derailed modernization?
- How to combine the incompatible, and who are "we"?
- The trial of NATO and Kosovo
- Does NATO threaten Russia?
- What other nastiness does the West have in store for Russia?
- Why Moscow needed the Balkans
- Ukraine as a milestone
- Where is the way out?
- Let's make a deal!
- Let's count warheads
- What separates Russia and the West?
- What it would be better not to do
- Western "protectors"
- How serious Westerners perceive Russia
- On interests and values, and the extent to which the "realists" make a convincing case
- How "Old" Europe abandoned its mission
- Why Russian human rights advocates are dissatisfied
- A reconsideration has begun
- How "New Europe" is trying to revive the European mission
- European society is starting to say what it thinks
- Kissinger vs. Brzezinski
- How useful is the League of Democracies and how probable is a global authoritarian revanche?
- The Obama factor and the idea of the "reset button"
- What do we mean by the "right direction" for U.S. policy toward Russia?
- How we were taught a lesson
- Obama in Moscow and the aftermath
- The Russian understanding of "reset"
- Why the West doesn't want to annoy the Kremlin
- So, what should and should not be done?
- Uncertainty as a way to survive
- The goal of power is to retain power
- Can Russia be renewed by leaving everything as it is?
- Can Russia get out of the dead end by itself?