Eternal Putin? - Confronting Navalny, the Pandemic, Sanctions, and War With Ukraine

The book details events in Russia over the two years before Putin launched his war against Ukraine, provides reasons why he did so and suggests potential consequences of that war. Russia's presidency, its economy, media and quality of life are featured, along with foreign affa...

List of contents

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Transliteration, Spelling, Punctuation and Sources
Note on Sources
Introduction
Chapter 1. Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation Presidency
Chapter 2. Navalny and the Political Cockpit
Chapter 3. Matter over Mind? Media, Human Rights, Pandemic & Climate Change
Chapter 4. The Economy. The Sanctions Saga.
Chapter 5. The International Arena
Chapter 6. New Cold War. Russia, the US and China
Chapter 7. War & Peace. Preparing for a Shooting War
Chapter 8. Russia in Wartime. Eternal Confrontation?
Chapter 9. Ripple Effects
Conclusion: Closing remarks, forecasts - and guesses
Appendix 1: List of Countries 'Unfriendly' to Russia from 5 March 2022
Appendix 2: Further Reading
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Joseph Laurence (Larry) Black is Professor Emeritus, and was re-designated Distinguished Research Professor by Carleton in 2017.

Product details

• Authors: J. L. Black, J.L. Black, Black J. L.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.02.2023
• EAN: 9781666919035
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-903-5
• No. of pages: 382
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ukraine, Russia, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Politics & government, Politics and government, HISTORY / Russia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet