Putin's Wars: The Rise Of Russia's New Imperialism

Part I. Russia and the curse of empire -- Despotism and the quest for empire -- Comparing western and Russian legitimation theories for empire -- Putin and the end of Russian "empire fatigue"--Putin's grand design -- The Eurasian Union: Putin's newest imperial project -- Part II. The "internal war"--Russia as a "pluralist" one-party state -- Preaching the ultranationalist gospel: the transformation of "united Russia" -- The Nashi: Fascist blackshirts or a New Komsomol? -- Send in the Cossacks -- Part III. The wheels of war -- Three lost wars: from Afghanistan to the First Chechen War -- The mysterious apartment bombings: detonator of the Second Chechen War -- The Second Chechen War: Putin's war -- The war with Georgia, Part I: a premeditated Russian aggression -- The war with Georgia, Part II: six events announcing the Kremlin's preparation for war -- The war with Georgia, Part III: the propaganda war -- Origins of the war in Ukraine -- Russia's "hybrid war" in Ukraine: five scenarios -- Conclusion 9781442253582 1442253584 0 Chechni{u0361}a (Russia) NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ja9UrgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Marcel H. van Herpen
• • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• • Publication Date: Jul 01, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 338 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1442253584
• • ISBN-13: 9781442253582