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The History Behind Russia's Expansionary Foreign Policy with Stephen Kotkin | Policy Stories

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Is Russia inherently imperialist and expansionist? Russia wasn’t forced to invade Ukraine, but its leaders chose to do so because they want Russia to become a great power. If Russian elites could somehow relinquish their unwinnable competition with the West, they could set their country on a less costly and more promising course. For more information, visit the PolicyEd page here: https://www.policyed.org/policy-stori... Additional resources: Read “Russia’s Perpetual Geopolitics: Putin Returns to the Historical Pattern,” by Stephen Kotkin via Foreign Affairs. Available here: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articl.... Read “Weakness and Grandeur,” by Stephen Kotkin. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/weakn.... Watch or listen to “Pesci-ent Knowledge: Stephen Kotkin On Xi’s China, Putin’s Russia,” on GoodFellows. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/pesci.... Watch “Why Putin Invaded Ukraine,” with Michael McFaul.  …...more
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The History Behind Russia's Expansionary Foreign Policy with Stephen Kotkin | Policy Stories
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Is Russia inherently imperialist and expansionist? Russia wasn’t forced to invade Ukraine, but its leaders chose to do so because they want Russia to become a great power. If Russian elites could somehow relinquish their unwinnable competition with the West, they could set their country on a less costly and more promising course. For more information, visit the PolicyEd page here: https://www.policyed.org/policy-stori... Additional resources: Read “Russia’s Perpetual Geopolitics: Putin Returns to the Historical Pattern,” by Stephen Kotkin via Foreign Affairs. Available here: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articl.... Read “Weakness and Grandeur,” by Stephen Kotkin. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/weakn.... Watch or listen to “Pesci-ent Knowledge: Stephen Kotkin On Xi’s China, Putin’s Russia,” on GoodFellows. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/pesci.... Watch “Why Putin Invaded Ukraine,” with Michael McFaul. Available here: https://www.policyed.org/policy-stori.... Watch “Second Fronts in Great-Power Conflicts,” on PolicyEd. Available here: https://www.policyed.org/unarchived/s....

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