...ulation, are exploiting the oil market at the expense of traditional firms, who are consistently losing their means for expansion given the inherent competitive disadvantages they now face. Russia provides a clear example, as Putin has successfully managed to leverage the country’s oil wealth to encourage foreign investment in joint-ventures with the state-owned companies Rosneft and Gazprom. Under these arrangements, Russia would limit the amoun...
...one potential crisis in a world chock full of them. Syria is on fire, North Korea is rattling the saber, and the Russian reset, for all the hype, appears to be fading (if it can be said to have ever truly existed) as Vladimir Putin prepares to reclaim his place in the Kremlin. These momentary flashes of instability do not pose any strategic risk to the United States, but they are legitimate points of concern and do pose a real threat to the presi...
...Andrew Wilson explained, Russian political consultants – eerily renamed “political technologists” – bring forth a style of “politics-as-performance.” In a move that many believe was orchestrated by the Kremlin itself, Vladmir Putin’s adviser, Gleb Pavlosky, as well as Russian political technologists Marat Gelman and Igor Shuvalov, worked on the political scene for the Social Democratic Party in Ukraine in 1999 and pushed for the presidency of Leo...
...hich provides a solidarity-based (and petroleum-funded) alternative to the neoliberal model of regional integration. Chávez has also looked globally to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for ideological fraternity and political support. This coalition of odd bedfellows has struck a State Department nerve with its denouncement of the “Yankee Empire” and its steady warnings of US exploitation. Chávez’s r...
...in breaking down that false picture, both in terms of assuaging the Israelis’ fear of a united front, as well as diminishing the perceived urgency in world opinion and thus increasing pressure to stop a possible attack. With Putin calling a possible attack on “truly catastrophic,” it is clear that opposition (albeit due to own interests rather than correctness) is already building. This comes, of course, in addition to statements by European lea...
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