Geopolitics and the Roots of Putin's Foreign Policy.

• Rutland, Peter ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Manchester

     University of Manchester

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Russian History, ISSN 0094-288X, Vol. 43, Nº. 3-4, 2016, págs. 425-436
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The four books reviewed here explore the intellectual roots of Vladimir Putin's intervention in Ukraine. Agnia Grigas sees it as the result of a logic of imperial expansion inherent to the Russian state, while Charles Clover argues it was shaped by the revival of ideas of Russia as a Eurasian civilization. Mark Bassin provides a deep analysis of the evolution of the thought of Lev Gumilev, the most influential Eurasianist thinker. Gerard Toal brings the perspective of a critical geographer, and views Russian behavior through the prism of its rhetorical stand-off with the United States