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What Happens When Soft Power Fails

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Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East and West, by Laruelle Marlène , Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2021, $39.95 (hardcover), ISBN 9781501754135.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2022

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In the wake of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, US president Barack Obama infamously called Putin’s Russia “a regional power […] threatening some of its immediate neighbours, not out of strength but out of weakness. […] The fact that Russia felt it had to go in militarily and lay bare these violations of international law indicate[d] less influence, not more.” Obama’s words reportedly angered Putin, who had long striven to convince the West, and primarily the USA, to treat Russia as a geopolitical equal. Being considered a regional power fundamentally denied equality with superpowers such as the USA.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 50 , Issue 6 , November 2022 , pp. 1252 - 1254
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of Nationalities

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