LEADER 03516nam 22005895 450 001 9910865256303321 005 20250922153758.0 010 $a9783031586699$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031586682 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-58669-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31471661 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31471661 035 $a(CKB)32273980700041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-58669-9 035 $a(OCoLC)1439598201 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932273980700041 100 $a20240612d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDeciphering Russian Enigma $eIn 15 Questions and 30 Answers /$fby Ofer Fridman, Vera Michlin-Shapir 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (187 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Fridman, Ofer Deciphering Russian Enigma Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 9783031586682 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Kremlin -- Chapter 3: The People -- Chapter 4: The Economy -- Chapter 5: The Military -- Chapter 6: The (Dis-) Information Machine -- Chapter 7: Conclusion. 330 $aThis book is about Russia. Yet, this book is not about Russia per se. To those, whose sole interest is a better understanding of the Kremlin?s decision making and how it shapes Russia?s present and future, we would refer to a rather long list of sources that we dutifully noted throughout the book. Instead, based on our expertise in Russian studies and the challenges that we experienced in the past 2 years, this book aims to offer a methodology to address questions when there is no ?right? or ?wrong? answer (due to lacking reliable information). Any attempt to answer this sort of questions using the commonly accepted deductive approach, based on scientific methods is bound to fail, because of the very nature of these questions. Therefore, using Russia as a case study, this book aims to advance a way of analysing (however limited, biased and uncertain) available information to advance a more critical understanding of the subject in question by using the methodology of dialectic inquiry. Ofer Fridman is Senior Lecturer at the Department of War Studies, King's College London and Director of Operations at Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications. ?Vera Michlin-Shapir is Director of Education at Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications and Visiting Research Fellow at King?s Russia Institute, King?s College London. 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aInternational relations 606 $aSecurity, International 606 $aPolitics and International Studies 606 $aInternational Relations 606 $aInternational Security Studies 606 $aMethodology of Political Science 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aInternational relations. 615 0$aSecurity, International. 615 14$aPolitics and International Studies. 615 24$aInternational Relations. 615 24$aInternational Security Studies. 615 24$aMethodology of Political Science. 676 $a320.60947 700 $aFriedman$b Ofer$01860277 701 $aMichlin-Shapir$b Vera$01629610 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910865256303321 996 $aDeciphering Russian Enigma$94464987 997 $aUNINA