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Russian Modernization Pathways: Foreign Policy Implications

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Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

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The term “sovereign democracy,” which entered Russia’s political lexicon in mid-2005, had by late 2007 become the unifying ideology of the ruling United Russia party — now headed by Prime Minister Putin himself. Its advocates within the presidential administration argued that a sovereign democratic state in the international system was politically and economically (“financial sovereignty”) independent thanks to both a strong military and state control over key strategic economic assets. Throughout the two terms of the Putin presidential administration, a dominant progressive narrative held that Russia had reemerged from the chaos and disorder of the 1990s as one of a handful of centers of global power and influence. This reflected both larger global processes and strong leadership within the state.

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Herd, G.P. (2011). Russian Modernization Pathways: Foreign Policy Implications. In: Kanet, R.E. (eds) Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230293168_4

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