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This book examines the extent to which Russia⁰́₉s strategic behavior is the product of its imperial strategic culture and Putin⁰́₉s own operational code. The workargues that, by conflating personalistic regime survival with national security, Putin ensures that contemporary Russian national interest, as expressed through strategic behavior, is the synthesis of a peculiar troika: a long-standing imperial strategic culture, rooted in a partially imagined past; the operational code of a counter-intelligence president and decision-making elite; and the realities of Russia as a hybrid state. The book first examines the role of structure and agency in shaping contemporary Russian strategic behavior. It then provides a conceptual understanding of strategic culture, and applies this to Tsarist and Soviet historical developments. The book⁰́₉s analysis of the operational code, however, demonstrates that Putinism is more than the sum of the past. Finally, the book assesses Putin⁰́₉s statecraft and stress-tests our assumptions about the exercise of contemporary power in Russia and the structure of Putin⁰́₉s agency. This book will be of interest to students of Russian politics and foreign policy, strategic studies and International Relations.