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Chapter 6, ‘The Coercive Diplomacy of Vladimir Putin (2014–2016)’, by Stanislav Tkachenko, examines the increasing willingness of the Russian regime under President Vladimir Putin to employ the threat and the use of limited military pressure to accomplish its political goals. In many respects Tkachenko examines the other side of the relationship on which Lomagin has focused – the strengths that Russia, as the weaker side in the competition, has drawn upon to pursue its interests, including re-establishing a multipolar international system. Tkachenko is especially interested in demonstrating that increasingly Russia has not merely been reactive to Western challenges. The coercive diplomacy of Russia’s leaders represents a new thrust of Russia’s policy, driven by the willingness to protect its vital interests in the former Soviet republics and benefit from equal relations with the USA and major European powers. Yet, coercive diplomacy, in his view signifies Russia’s weakness in the contest with the West.
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In an address to participants of the Riga Conference on November 7, 2015, at the plenary session titled ‘Quo Vadis twenty-first century Russia’, Dr Celeste A. Wallander, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director, Russia and Central Asia at the US National Security Council, in 10-minutes speech five times mentioned ‘Russian coercion’ and three times ‘Russian aggression’ (‘Looking Back’ 2015).
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Tkachenko, S.L. (2017). The Coercive Diplomacy of Vladimir Putin (2014–2016). In: Kanet, R. (eds) The Russian Challenge to the European Security Environment . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50775-0_6
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