Political Power Blog
Author - Alina V. Vladimirova, Vice-chair of Research Committee on Political Power of International Political Science Association. Her main scientific interests are different faces of power in global affairs, empirical analysis of political power and approaches to multi-method political research. She teaches courses in political science at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Six months of fighting for a new package of targeted sanctions against Russia ended up on August 2 with the President of the United States Donald Trump signing the "The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act" in the edition approved by…
In U.S., national media love presidents. U.S. local and regional media love them even more. Media studies affirm this characteristic of American political communications. Since 1953 about twice as many stories were favorable to the president as were…
According to the “The Soft Power 30” index published on June 14, Russia made it to the 27th place. Jonathan McClory admits that it can be quite surprising. However, he argues that Russia is a diplomatic powerhouse with unique capabilities…
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In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements 33 (31%) U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity 30 (28%) U.S. wants to dissolve Russia 24 (22%) U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China 21 (19%)