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- Title
What Happens When Soft Power Fails.
- Authors
Shekhovtsov, Anton
- Abstract
In the wake of Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea, US president Barack Obama infamously called Putin's Russia "a regional power [...] threatening some of its immediate neighbours, not out of strength but out of weakness. [...] The fact that Russia felt it had to go in militarily and lay bare these violations of international law indicate[d] less influence, not more." Obama's words reportedly angered Putin, who had long striven to convince the West, and primarily the USA, to treat Russia as a geopolitical equal. Being considered a regional power fundamentally denied equality with superpowers such as the USA.
- Subjects
RUSSIA; IS Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East &; West (Book); LARUELLE, Marlene, 1972-; FASCISM; PUTIN, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-; RUSSIA-United States relations
- Publication
Nationalities Papers, 2022, Vol 50, Issue 6, p1252
- ISSN
0090-5992
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/nps.2021.111