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    ALEX  BATTLER

 


The 21st Century: The World Without Russia



The book dispels the common myth about Russia as a superpower. Alex Battler draws readers' attention to numerous historic themes that put the country's potential in direct conflict with its stated foreign policy objectives.

The authors views are entirely his own and are, on most occasions, different from those commonly accepted.










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Table of Contents

Preface for Western Readers
Preface
Acronyms and Abbreviations

Part One: U.S. Strategy in the Twenty-First Century: Leadership through Hegemony

Chapter I: Concept Apparatus and Research Approaches
Chapter II: Role and Place of the USA in the Twenty-First Century in the Research of American Political Scientists and Scholars of International Affairs
Hans Binnendijk: Back to Bipolarity?
The Institute for National Strategic Research: Russia as Geostrategic Ghetto
Hugh De Santis’s Mutualism Concept
Samuel Huntington: The Concept of a Unimultipolar World
Zbigniew Brzezinski: As Always, Favoring U.S. Hegemony and Status Quo for Russia
The Council on Foreign Relations: Russia Invited to Be Part of the West
Strobe Talbott: Historical Optimism about Russia
The Concept of “Engagement” as a Strategic Principle of U.S. Foreign Policy
The Strategy of “Engaging” Russia: An Application of the Carrot-and-Stick Principle (Michael McFaul)
R. Craig Nation’s Policy of “Limited Engagement”
The Concept of “Rational Engagement”
U.S. National Security: the Realist Approach
Ronald Steel: “Security is Mortals’ Chiefest Enemy”
Rand Corporation’s Forecasts and Future Scenarios to Year 2025
Alternative Developments of the Situation in Europe
The Heritage Foundation: U.S. Leadership Based on Strength
Russia as Seen by the Heritage Foundation
Russia “Presents a Threat to the United States, to the West, and to the Russian People.”
Condoleezza Rice: Geostrategy Without Illusions
Chapter III: Official U.S. Strategic Doctrines: A View of the World and of Russia
A National Security Strategy for a New Century
United States: Strategic Plan for International Affairs
Annual Report to the President and the Congress
The CIA Writes About the World and Russia
Chapter IV: Funding for U.S. International Policy
Procedure and Terms
The Structure of Funding for International Affairs
Funding of Policies Toward CIS Countries and Russia
Criticism of Washington’s Financial Policy in the Sphere of International Affairs
Conclusion: Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy

Part Two: Russia’s Strategy: A Course Toward Multipolarity

Chapter V: Official Doctrines and Concepts

The National Security Concept of the Russian Federation, or the Immediate Tasks of the Party and the Government
Russia in the World Community
Russia’s National Interests
Threats to the National Security of the Russian Federation
Ensuring the National Security of the Russian Federation
Primakov – Ivanov – MFA: Demagogy – Idealism – Utopia
The Russian Federation’s Foreign Policy Concept: The Goal Is Nothing; the Process Is Everything
Preliminary Conclusions
Chapter VI: Russian Scholars: In the World of “If-onlyism,” or How to Take a “Worthy Place” in the World
Globalization, Globalization Everywhere
Unipolar World or a Multipolar One
The Gorbachev Foundation: Idealist-Realists
Russia: Ace, Six, or Joker?
The Concept of “Selective Involvement”
Chapter VII: In the Trap of “Eurasia”
Tavrovsky: Ill-Considered Bet on Primakov
A. Dugin: Eurasian Ventriloquist
“If-Only-ism,” Titarenko-style
Brzezinski’s Eurasianism and the Response from Baturin and Dobrocheyev
Eurasia: Phantom or Reality?
Is Russia the Same as Eurasia?
The Future of Russia: Confederation or Integral Whole?
Bipolarity Again?
Part Three: The Twenty-First Century: Reality without Illusions

The Theory of Foreign Policy and International Relations

Chapter VIII: From Internationalization to Global Integration: Theory and Practice
Internationalization and/or Globalization
Manifestations of Economic Internationalization
Internationalization Cycles in the Twentieth Century
Preliminary Results of Economic Internationalization
How Can Internationalization Be Made Fair?
Transnational and Multinational Corporations (TNCs and MNCs)
TNCs and the State
Localization and Globalization
Integration
Globalization, or the Theory of Global Capitalism
Global Accumulation of Capital: Its Structure and Dynamics
Governance and Global Capitalism
General Conclusions
Chapter IX: The Contours of the World in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century and Beyond (Theory)
The Geoeconomic Structure of the World
The Geostrategic Structure of International Relations
The Theory of the Three Worlds and Their Characteristics
Development Phases of the Structure of International Relations
From First-World Unipolarity to a World Community
Chapter X: National Interests, National and International Security
National Interests and National Security
The Soviet Union’s International Security Concept
The Fundamental External Interests of Russia and the USA: Differences and Coincidences
National Security and the Country’s Foreign Policy Potential
Foreign Policy Potential and International Security
The Evolution of the Structure of the International Security System
China and the System of Collective Security in Asia
Conclusion
Russia’s Place and Role in the World in the Twentieth Century
Chapter XI: Russia’s Place in the Geoeconomic Space
Russia’s Place in the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
The Years of Soviet Power: The Transformation into a Superpower
The End of the 20th Century: Russia at the Bottom
Chapter XII: Russia’s Foreign Policy Potential
Chapter XIII: Russia’s Strategic Prospects
A Rational Foreign Policy Concept for Russia
Russia’s National Interests
Clarifications and Adequate Responses
Selected Bibliography
Statistics, Reference Books, and Reports of International Organizations
Public Documents
Author’s Books and Articles

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