Understanding Russian Strategic Behavior: Imperial Strategic Culture and Putin's Operational Code

by Graeme P. Herd

Book Overview

This book examines the extent to which Russia's strategic behavior is the product of its imperial strategic culture and Putin's own operational code.

The work argues that, by conflating personalistic regime survival with national security, Putin ensures that contemporary Russian national interest, as expressed through strategic behavior, is the synthesis of a peculiar troika: a long-standing imperial strategic culture, rooted in a partially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036720522X
• ISBN13: 9780367205225
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"