Vladimir Putin’s Russian World Turned Upside Down

TY - JOUR

T1 - Vladimir Putin’s Russian World Turned Upside Down

AU - Gioe, David V.

AU - Styles, William

N1 - Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: David V. Gioe wishes to acknowledge funding support from the British Academy under the Global Professorship program. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2022.

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - What will the long-term impact of President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine be upon the Russian state? This article assesses the likely outcomes of the Kremlin’s war of aggression in Ukraine across a spectrum of economic, military, political, and social factors to evidence the scale of Russian miscalculation regarding its disastrous decision to invade Ukraine, and argues for the inevitability of Russian strategic decline as a direct consequence of its reckless military adventurism.

AB - What will the long-term impact of President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine be upon the Russian state? This article assesses the likely outcomes of the Kremlin’s war of aggression in Ukraine across a spectrum of economic, military, political, and social factors to evidence the scale of Russian miscalculation regarding its disastrous decision to invade Ukraine, and argues for the inevitability of Russian strategic decline as a direct consequence of its reckless military adventurism.

KW - geopolitics

KW - intelligence

KW - Russia

KW - strategy

KW - Ukraine

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85138270356&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/0095327X221121778

DO - 10.1177/0095327X221121778

M3 - Comment/debate

AN - SCOPUS:85138270356

SN - 0095-327X

JO - Armed Forces and Society

JF - Armed Forces and Society

ER -