The Story of Putin. United States Department of Defense
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Christopher T. Gans, United States Department of Defense, U.S. Navy
The Story of Putin
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2020 OK Publishing
EAN 4064066394011
Table of Contents
I. PUTINIST AUTHORITARIANISM AND ANTI-AMERICANISM: AN INTRODUCTION
1. Putin’s Evolving Anti-Americanism
2. Putin’s Hybrid-Authoritarian Machine
3. Implications of Russians’ Anti-Americanism
II. VLADIMIR PUTIN’S ANTI-AMERICANISM: OUTWARDLY FLUCTUATING BUT INTERNALLY CONSISTENT?
2. Into the Shadows: Putin in the KGB and the Case for a Long Term Cognitive Predisposition
1. Putin in the Aftermath of Collapse
2. Russia and the West in the 1990s: U.S. as an Inadvertent Contributor to Putinist Anti-Americanism
c. Economic Collapse and the Absence of U.S. Aid
C. PUTIN: A SUDDEN THRUST INTO THE LIMELIGHT
1. Putin’s Short-Lived Premiership and Acting Presidency
b. Presidential Election of 2000
1. Integrate Into or With the West… or Neither?
2. The Attacks of 9/11 and the Aftermath
3. Brotherly Love: Putin and Bush
4. Iraq and a Sudden Turn Against America?
2. America Inadvertently Plays into Putin’s Hand
b. The Future of U.S. Unilateralism
d. Western Turn by Former Constituent States
3. Critical Reciprocity? Attack on Those who Criticize Him
F. PRESIDENT TO PUPPETMASTER AND BACK AGAIN: PUTIN’S RECENT PREMIERSHIP AND RETURN TO THE PRESIDENCY
2. The Obama-Medvedev Reset: Short Lived or DOA?
3. The 2012 Election and Putin’s Third Term
III. VLADIMIR PUTIN’S RUSSIA: BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND DICATORSHIP?
A. WHAT MAKES AN AUTHORITARIAN STATE?