Russian energy policy and military power : Putin's quest for greatness /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2008
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| Series: | Contemporary security studies
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Table of Contents:
- Three backgrounds
- The military reform that never happened
- The energy dividend that was too low
- and has become too high
- The dream of a new "greatness" that has come truly false
- Deadlocked energy-security dilemmas
- The trickle of the oil money for the military
- Counter-terrorism and the Caspian oil games
- Alliance-building with virtual commitments and energy power
- Military muscle as the ultimate proof of "greatness"
- Virtually extended nuclear deterrence of the "great power"
- The army and power-projecting in the new "empire"
- Internal order and security in the "civilization"
- Energy power and the quest for "greatness"
- Applying the gas lever for qualifying as a "great power"
- Reconstituting the "empire" as an oil-and-gas cartel
- Hydrocarbon foundation for the "civilization"