Abstract

TOME, Luís. Geopolitics of Putin’s Russia: it is not the Soviet Union, but it would like to be…. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2018, n.60, pp.69-99. ISSN 1645-9199.  https://doi.org/10.23906/ri2018.60a05.

The purpose of this article is to understand and analyse the current geopolitics of the Russian Federation, arguing that although it is not the USSR, in a sense it would like to be in terms of space and power. Focusing on the discourse and practice of Vladimir Putin, we begin by analysing the geography, demography, and borders of post-Soviet Russia and then deepen Putin’s view of Russia, post-Soviet space, and the world order. Subsequently, we assess the main factors of power in Russia and its use under Putin’s leadership: on the one hand, relative economic power, geoeconomics and the geopolitics of energy; on the other hand, military power and Putin’s Russia geostrategy.

Keywords : Russia; Putin; geopolitics; Post-Soviet space.

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