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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 Analysis of Fears -- Imperial revival -- Use of force -- Restoration of military power -- Hybrid warfare -- The energy weapon -- Cyber capabilities -- Portraying the United States and NATO as a threat to Russia -- Russian political threat to Europe -- Shrinking spheres of influence -- Use of ethnic Russians abroad as a destabilizing "fifth column" -- Agents of influence in the West -- Russian authoritarianism and kleptocracy -- Russia: apart from Europe rather than a part of Europe -- Treatment of history -- Notes

La Russie a fait évoluer sa politique étrangère depuis quelques années. Celle-ci se caractérise par un durcissement croissant vis-à-vis des États-Unis et de l'Europe, s'inscrivant davantage dans un cadre de confrontation plutôt que de coopération. Il est urgent de retrouver une confiance mutuelle.

The problem Vladimir Putin has faced is how to convince the West that Russia means business when it offers a solution to the chemical weapons issue. After all, for well over a decade Russia has been a naysayer and spoiler, either protesting against US military interventions or seeking to obstruct Washington's policies. Why has Russia now stepped foward and offered an alternative solution, tentatively accepted both by Damascus and the Americans? Adapted from the source document.

Even as the Obama administration has pivoted toward the Asia-Pacific region, so has the Kremlin.…

Focused mainly on itself, and trying to avoid being dominated by any other countries, Moscow is striving to reconstitute itself as a great power.