I Remember When Russia Was a Great Power

  • Iver B. Neumann London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Abstract


To “decline to the level of a second class power [...and] become an Asiatic state [...] would be a major catastrophe for Russia.”1


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Published
2018/08/29
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