1st Edition
Ukraine, Russia and the West When Value Promotion Met Hard Power
By Stefan Hedlund
Copyright 2023
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface
Section I: Theoretical Background
1. Institutions and Policy Making
2. Roots of Western Ethnocentricity
3. Reflections on Revolutions
Section II: Empirical Evidence
4. Color Revolutions
5. Orange Revolution and the Euromaidan
6. Russia’s Abortive Snow Revolution
Section III: The Nature of the Problem
7. The Elusive Informal Institutions
8. Moral Hazard and the Ivory Tower
9. Is the West Really Superior?
Section IV: Outlook
10. The End of History, 2.0
References
Index
Biography
Stefan Hedlund is Senior Professor of Russian and East European Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden
