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Putinism : the slow rise of a radical right regime in Russia
\"This book aims to provide an important insight into the essence of Putinism and the political system he has established in Russia over the past decade. Van Herpen compares in detail the many and often surprising parallels that exist between Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia and that of Weimar Germany and Mussolini's Italy indicating the presence of strong Fascist elements in the contemporary Russian Political system. However, this is tempered with elements of Bonapartism from Napoleon III's France and the populism of Italian politics under Berlusconi creating a hybrid system which has been termed 'Fascism-Lite' with a softer face than Mussolinian Fascism but still containing a hard core of ultra-nationalism, militarism and neo-imperialism. The author not only looks at Putin's regime in retrospect but also offers an insight into the future of the Russian political system as Russia's strong man begins his third term in office\"-- Provided by publisher.
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I Say NATO, You Say No NATO
Among these voices are first those of the French military, frustrated by the fact that French self-isolation within NATO hampers the modernization and interoperability of the French army with the armies of its allies.2 A second group of voices is the industrial lobby that hopes that French armaments sales will be boosted after France's return to the military organization. In order \"to rebalance the Atlantic Alliance in favor of the Europeans,\" the authors wrote, one should consider \"the possibility of 'Europeanizing' the position of deputy SACEUR [supreme allied commander Europe], currently held by Britain, by rotating it among the various European countries.\"
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Putin's propaganda machine : soft power and Russian foreign policy
\"This book examines Russia's 'information war,' one of the most striking features of its intervention in Ukraine. Marcel H. Van Herpen argues that the Kremlin's propaganda offensive is a carefully prepared strategy, implemented and tested over the last decade. Initially intended as a tool to enhance Russia's soft power, it quickly developed into one of the main instruments of Russia's new imperialism, reminiscent of the height of the Cold War. The author describes a multifaceted strategy that makes use of diverse instruments, including mimicking Western public diplomacy initiatives, hiring Western public-relations firms, setting up front organizations, buying Western media outlets, financing political parties, organizing a worldwide propaganda offensive through the Kremlin's cable network RT, and publishing paid supplements in leading Western newspapers. In this information war, key roles are assigned to the Russian diaspora and the Russian Orthodox Church, the latter focused on spreading so-called traditional values and attacking universal human rights and Western democracy in international fora. Van Herpen demonstrates that the Kremlin's propaganda machine plays not only a central role in its 'hybrid war' in Ukraine, but that it also has broader international objectives, targeting in particular Europe's two leading countries--France and Germany--with the goal of forming a geopolitical triangle, consisting of a Moscow-Berlin-Paris axis, intended to roll back the influence of NATO and the United States in Europe. Drawing on years of research, Van Herpen shows how the Kremlin has built an array of soft power instruments and transformed them into effective weapons in a new information war with the West\"--Provided by publisher.
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Common US-EU forum on global issues is needed
It is logical that the EU high representative for the common foreign and security policy, who will become a fully fledged EU foreign minister after the ratification of the constitution, will represent the EU together with the president of the Council. The CFSP remains, however, an intergovernmental co-operation that is organised as the second pillar. It is therefore certain that the \"Big Three\" will be jealous about their privileged bilateral ties with Washington, which could jeopardise the functioning of such a US- EU forum.
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Disastrous French foreign policy is doomed
Third, France's two allies in the anti-war coalition cannot be trusted. The anti-war stance of Gerhard Schroder, the German chancellor, 's seems to be influenced by a personal vendetta with the Bush administration. The Christian Democratic Union opposition will be quick to mend fences with the US when it returns to government. The Russian leadership was clever enough not to take the lead of the anti-war coalition and to combine a hard stance towards the US (Igor Ivanov, foreign minister) with a soft stance (President Vladimir Putin) - which leaves a reconciliation not only possible but also probable. The US will combine a generous approach towards Russia (letting Russian companies participate in the reconstruction of Iraq) with a hard approach towards France. We may therefore, probably, soon witness the unravelling of the anti-war coalition.
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Europe is in danger of being divided
It seems that an enlarging EU is splitting into two parts. On the one hand is \"fringe Europe\", a group of member states at the western, northern, southern and (new) eastern rims of the EU. On the other is \"core Europe\" led by France and Germany. Wolfgang Schauble and Karl Lamers, the German Christian Democrats, first used the expression \"core Europe\" (Kerneuropa ) in their 1994 report Reflections on Europe. In this, they advocated a core Europe consisting of a small group of EU member states (France, Germany and the Benelux) that would speed up integration among themselves in order to constitute an avant garde within the Union. This leads us to ask some questions.
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