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Sources of Russian Aggression: Is Russia a Realist Power?

Sources of Russian Aggression: Is Russia a Realist Power?

Maitra, Sumantra

Hardcover

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1666935840
ISBN13: 9781666935844
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: May 3 2024
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Moscow indulges in the military use of force and balancing behaviour, only when it perceives its interests to be threatened, but seeks to preserve, uphold, or return to the status-quo the moment the threats subside or are neutralized by balancing actions, acting more as a security maximizer, than a power maximizer. The Sources of Russian Aggression: Is Russia a Realist Power? employs a qualitative research design and case study method, relying on secondary literature, military sources, and observed and recorded news. This evidence relies on Russian strategic actions, and not Russian rhetoric. The evidence explored suggests that Russia balances against perceived threats and that Russian use of force is directly proportional to any strategic and material loss. Alternatively, Russia behaves like a status quo power when the perceived threat subsides. Also, Maitra explains how Russian military aggression is focused on geopolitical balance and has narrow strategic aims, and Russia either lacks the will and/or capability or both to be an expansionist or occupying power. Maitra concludes that Russia is inherently a reactive power with limited regional aims, which are not commensurate with an aspiration of a continental hegemony. The findings have future policy relevance for European/British and American security, as the U.S. grows increasingly isolationist, and NATO and EU rift widens.

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