Timothy Frye on ‘Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia’
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Is Russian Foreign Policy in the European Energy Crisis?
A running line and idea throughout the book is this idea that russia is neither as strong nor as weak as it looks. Would you say that this might be a useful framework for understanding russia's current position in the ongoing european energy crisis?ye, i think that's right. In general, one of hethings i tried to do in the book is to try to writ size a russian foreign policy which i think tends to fall into two extremes. One is that r Russia is a declining power, rfail state that really we don't have to pay much attention to because the real threat comes from china,. But russia has nuclear weapons, it has a seat at
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