From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world—and its place in it—that the West can best meet the Russian challenge.
Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that Western leaders tend to think that Russia should act as a “rational” Western nation—even though Russian leaders for centuries have thought and acted based on their country's much different history and traditions. Russia, through Western eyes, is unpredictable and irrational, when in fact its leaders from the czars to Putin almost always act in their own very predictable and rational ways. For Western leaders to try to engage with Russia without attempting to understand how Russians look at the world is a recipe for repeated disappointment and frequent crises.
Keir Giles, a senior expert on Russia at Britain's prestigious Chatham House, describes how Russian leaders have used consistent doctrinal and strategic approaches to the rest of the world. These approaches may seem deeply alien in the West, but understanding them is essential for successful engagement with Moscow. Giles argues that understanding how Moscow's leaders think—not just Vladimir Putin but his predecessors and eventual successors—will help their counterparts in the West develop a less crisis-prone and more productive relationship with Russia.

Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (Insights: Critical Thinking on International Affairs)

Giles, Keir

Legal Theory & Systems

Brookings Institution Press

Russia's annexation of Crimea and intervention in Eastern Ukraine in 2014, alarmed not only Western-leaning states in Central Europe and the Baltic but also Moscow's traditional allies. These events signaled that Moscow is now willing and capable of using direct military force against perceived strategic threats in its self-proclaimed region of vested interests. With the exception of Ukraine and the Baltic States, this Letort Paper examines how Russia's front-line states have adjusted their foreign policy posture since 2014. Belarus, Moldova, the states of Central Asia and the South Caucasus calculate the benefits and risks in their relationship with Moscow and either make concessions or strengthen their defenses accordingly to avoid triggering a Russian reaction. This Letort Paper provides a range of policy recommendations intended to maximize the opportunities of a new alignment with the West for these states while minimizing the risk of Russia, using again, those capabilities it has demonstrated in Ukraine and Syria.

What Next for Russia’s Front-Line States?

History

Strategic Studies Institute

Military

Independently published

Im Frühjahr 2019 ist nicht nur die BREXIT-Debatte brandaktuell, sondern es jähren sich auch andere Ereignisse von globaler Bedeutung: 1979 begann sich China politisch und wirtschaftlich zu öffnen. Und im Frühjahr 1979 war die islamische Revolution im Iran entschieden. Dann mussten wir feststellen, daß bereits 5 Jahre verstrichen sind, seit Russland die Krim annektierte.Der Historiker Kiran Klaus Patel erinnert daran, ohne direkte Parallelen zu ziehen, daß bereits zwei Staaten aus der EU ausgetreten sind: Grönland und Algerien. Bernhard Seyringer beschreibt aktuelle Entwicklungen der Chinesischen Belt-And-Road Intitiative.

XING 42 :: Zeitenwenden.: Chinas Vormarsch, Russlands Macht, Europa & GB, ... (XING Magazin) (German Edition)

GOODHART, DAVID

Patel, Kiran Klaus

Ratti, Carlo

Seyringer, Bernhard

Cheheltan, Amir Hassan

Lamprecht, Wolfgang

Limnell, Jarno

Belleri, Daniele

Mogensen, Klaus

Business & Money

Because of the seamlessly international nature of the Internet, effective cyber security demands close cooperation with allies and friends overseas. Yet, because of the relatively young status of the discipline, national approaches to organizing and providing for cyber defense vary widely even among those countries whose interests are most closely aligned with those of the United States. The result is that the bodies and structures responsible for cyber defense, and their affiliations and mandates, can be difficult to understand. In this Letort Paper, British cyber policy researcher Keir Giles and German computer security specialist Kim Hartmann provide an overview of four different national approaches to cyber defense: those of Norway, Estonia, Germany, and Sweden. While providing a useful guide for engagement with the relevant governmental and other organizations in each of these countries, the Paper also compares and contrasts the advantages and drawbacks of each national approach.

Cyber Defense: An International View

Army War College, U.S.

Institute, Strategic Studies

Hartmann, Kim

Reference

lulu.com

Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You

You may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you. Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia has also been waging a clandestine war against the West for decades. Hostile acts abroad, from poisoning dissidents to shooting down airliners, interfering in elections, spying, hacking and murdering, have long seemed to be the Kremlin's daily business. But what is it all for? Why does Russia consistently behave like this? And what does it achieve? In this book, Keir Giles explains how and why Russia pushes for more power and influence wherever it can reach, far beyond Ukraine - and what it means not just for governments, but for ordinary people. Bringing together stories from the military, politics, diplomacy, espionage, cyber power, organised crime and more, Giles describes how Moscow conducts its campaigns across the globe, and how nobody is too unimportant to be caught up in them. By lifting the lid on the daily struggle going on behind the scenes to protect governments, businesses, societies and people from Russian hostile activity, Russia's War On Everybody shows how Moscow's hostile intentions for the rest of the world are far broader and more ambitious, and the ways it tries to achieve them far more pervasive and damaging, than we realise.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Bloomsbury Academic

The Turning Point For Russian Foreign Policy

Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent

Hurst

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