03577nam a22005295i 4500 978-3-031-58669-9 DE-He213 20251030112309.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240612s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031586699 978-3-031-58669-9 10.1007/978-3-031-58669-9 doi JA1-92 JP bicssc POL000000 bisacsh JP thema Fridman, Ofer. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 78604 Deciphering Russian Enigma [electronic resource] : In 15 Questions and 30 Answers / by Ofer Fridman, Vera Michlin-Shapir. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XII, 179 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 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. This 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. Political science. 58714 International relations. 58103 Security, International. 58210 Politics and International Studies. 70610 International Relations. 58103 International Security Studies. 69560 Methodology of Political Science. 71419 Michlin-Shapir, Vera. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 78605 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031586682 Printed edition: 9783031586705 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58669-9 ZDB-2-POS ZDB-2-SXPI 60685 60685