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Achieve Regime Change
Author_Stefan Hedlund
authoritarian regimes
Bulldozer Revolution
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Charles The Great
Color Revolutions
Defining Cases
Dense
Eastern Partnership
Electoral Revolutions
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EU Internal Energy Market
EU Troika
European security order analysis
Foreign Ministers
Global Gdp
Hard Power
informal institutions analysis
Informal Norm Systems
Informal Norms
liberal democracy transition
Limited Access Order
NATO Expansion
NATO Summit
political transformation
post-Soviet politics
Radical Political Islam
Relative Performance Characteristics
Representational Redescription
Road To Ruin
RUSSIA
Secular Rational Values
security studies
Self-expression Values
THE WEST
UKRAINE
UN
United Russia
Value Promotion
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- ISBN 9781032396286
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2023
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Why did Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine come as such a surprise to the West? This is a key question considered by this reflective and wide-ranging book. The book argues that Russia and the West were playing different games: while Russia under Putin had become obsessed with using hard power to restore the Cold War security architecture in Europe, the major Western powers had become equally obsessed with value promotion that would ensure a global triumph for the values of the West, touted as “universal values.” The Russian play for spheres of interest was clearly defined and demarcated, the Western play for values was, by definition, without limits. Hence there could be no common ground, no constructive communication, and no common understanding. While Russia convinced itself that it would be successful in forcing the West to accept its claims for a new security order, based on hard power, Western governments deluded themselves into believing that value promotion would transform Russia into a liberal democracy and a rules-based market economy. Examining the full situation, exploring political, military, economic and business spheres, the book provides a deep analysis of how the present confrontation has come about.
Stefan Hedlund is Senior Professor of Russian and East European Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden
