Putin's propaganda machine : soft power and Russian foreign policy /
"This book examines Russia's 'information war,' one of the most striking features of its intervention in Ukraine. Marcel H. Van Herpen argues that the Kremlin's propaganda offensive is a carefully prepared strategy, implemented and tested over the last decade. Initially inte...
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The search for Russian "soft power"
- Russian soft power : hard power in a velvet glove
- The three components of the Russian soft power offensive : mimesis, roll back, and invention
- "Reputation laundering" : how Western communication firms help improve the Kremlin's image
- The propaganda offensive in the Western media, part I : the creation of "Russia today" (RT), "Russia beyond the headlines," and "Rossiya segodnya"
- The propaganda offensive in the Western media, part II : buying Western newspapers, the increasing grip on the social media, the "Kremlin School of Bloggers"
- Financing politicians and political parties
- Spies and spooks as soft power instruments?
- Part II. Creating a new missionary ideology : the role of the Russian Orthodox Church
- The Russian Orthodox Church : the Kremlin's secret weapon?
- Attacking universal human rights in the international forums-- A global church for the Kremlin?
- The Russian Orthodox Church : a pillar of Russian neoimperialism?
- Part III. Undermining Atlanticism : building a "strategic triangle" Moscow-Berlin-Paris
- An emerging Moscow-Berlin axis?
- Germany's Kremlin-friendly political class
- Russian-German "Verflechtung" : creating mutual economic interdependence
- The Kremlin's conquest of France
- Conclusions.
