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Putin’s Strategic Culture, Climate Crisis, and Power Transition: From Permafrost to 'Permawar' book cover

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Putin’s Strategic Culture, Climate Crisis, and Power Transition From Permafrost to 'Permawar'

By Mette Skak Copyright 2026
182 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book offers a new perspective on the security policy of Russia, linking the Ukraine war with its climate policy and Putin’s strategic culture. It offers an analysis of Russian strategic culture, Putin’s strategic culture and operational code, as well as “Putinism” being the mental underpinning of Kremlin practices at home and abroad. The volume also addresses Russia’s evolution during... Read more

Chapter 1:  Introduction: The Dialectics between Russian Geo-economics and Geopolitics  Chapter 2: Power Transition Theory, Geo-economics and the “Energy Turn” within Russian Strategic Culture  Chapter 3: From Permafrost to Local Warming amidst Climate Denial in Russia  Chapter 4: Russian Strategic Culture: Research Review in the Light of the Ukraine War  Chapter 5: The Geopolitics of Putinism: The Decision to Launch a Colonial War and Beyond  Chapter 6: From Pragmatism to Militarism and “Permawar”  Chapter 7: From Permafrost to “Permawar” against Europe? Implications from the Ukraine War

Biography

Mette Skak is an Emeritus Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

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