The Story of Putin

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United States Department of Defense. The Story of Putin

The Story of Putin

I. PUTINIST AUTHORITARIANISM AND ANTI-AMERICANISM: AN INTRODUCTION

A. PURPOSE

B. IMPORTANCE

C. HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY

D. BACKGROUND

1. Putin’s Evolving Anti-Americanism

2. Putin’s Hybrid-Authoritarian Machine

3. Implications of Russians’ Anti-Americanism

E. METHODOLOGY AND SOURCES

F. ROADMAP

II. VLADIMIR PUTIN’S ANTI-AMERICANISM: OUTWARDLY FLUCTUATING BUT INTERNALLY CONSISTENT?

A. PUTIN’S EARLY HISTORY

1. Early Life and College

2. Into the Shadows: Putin in the KGB and the Case for a Long Term Cognitive Predisposition

B. YELTSIN ERA

1. Putin in the Aftermath of Collapse

2. Russia and the West in the 1990s: U.S. as an Inadvertent Contributor to Putinist Anti-Americanism

a. NATO

b. Balkans

c. Economic Collapse and the Absence of U.S. Aid

C. PUTIN: A SUDDEN THRUST INTO THE LIMELIGHT

1. Putin’s Short-Lived Premiership and Acting Presidency

a. Crisis in Chechnya

b. Presidential Election of 2000

D. PUTIN’S FIRST PRESIDENCY

1. Integrate Into or With the West… or Neither?

2. The Attacks of 9/11 and the Aftermath

3. Brotherly Love: Putin and Bush

4. Iraq and a Sudden Turn Against America?

5. Elections of 2003 and 2004

E. PUTIN’S SECOND PRESIDENCY

1. Shift from the West

2. America Inadvertently Plays into Putin’s Hand

a. NATO

b. The Future of U.S. Unilateralism

c. BMD

d. Western Turn by Former Constituent States

3. Critical Reciprocity? Attack on Those who Criticize Him

F. PRESIDENT TO PUPPETMASTER AND BACK AGAIN: PUTIN’S RECENT PREMIERSHIP AND RETURN TO THE PRESIDENCY

1. Georgia

2. The Obama-Medvedev Reset: Short Lived or DOA?

3. The 2012 Election and Putin’s Third Term

4. Ongoing Events

G. CONCLUSIONS

III. VLADIMIR PUTIN’S RUSSIA: BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND DICATORSHIP?

A. WHAT MAKES AN AUTHORITARIAN STATE?

1. True Authoritarian States

2. Hybrid Authoritarian States

B. PUTIN’S AUTHORITARIAN CONTROLLED DEMOCRACY: THE MECHANISMS

1. Attack the Yeltsin Years

2. State Control and Resource Theory

3. Maintaining the Illusion

a. “Democratic” Elections

b. Political Parties

C. ROLE OF ELITES AND THE PUBLIC IN PUTIN’S MACHINE: AN AUTOCRAT STILL ANSWERABLE TO OTHERS?

1. Elites

2. The Public at Large

D. CONCLUSION

IV. THE POLITICS OF ANTI-AMERICANISM

A. POLLING PERSPECTIVE ON THE RUSSIAN PUBLICS’ ANTI-AMERICANISM

1. The Pre-Putin Years

2. Under Putin: Fluctuating or as Steady as Putin?

B. ANTI-AMERICANISM OF THE ELITES

1. Disenchantment Under Yeltsin

2. Anti-Americanism to Demonstrate one’s Political Bona Fides

C. PUTIN’S POLITICAL BENEFITS FROM ANTI-AMERICANISM

1. A Leader Representative of his Constituents

2. Distract the Constituents

D. CONCLUSION

V. CONCLUSION

A. RUSSIAN ANTI-AMERICANISM: THE MAN, THE MACHINE, AND THE NATION

1. Summary of Findings

2. The Russian Connection: Anti-Americanism and the Putin-State-Polity Link

B. ANTI-AMERICANISM’S ROLE IN THE FUTURE OF RUSSIAN — AMERICAN RELATIONS

1. Most Recent Events

2. How Can America Cope?

C. FINAL ANALYSIS

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Christopher T. Gans, United States Department of Defense, U.S. Navy

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F. PRESIDENT TO PUPPETMASTER AND BACK AGAIN: PUTIN’S RECENT PREMIERSHIP AND RETURN TO THE PRESIDENCY

1. Georgia

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