This Is Not the World Russia Wants
Key takeaways
- HANNA NOTTE is Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
- A Belligerent America Is Foiling Putin’s Strategy
- The 2022 invasion of Ukraine marked only the peak of Russia’s long turn toward revisionism.
HANNA NOTTE is Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. She is the author of We Shall Outlast Them: Putin’s Global Campaign to Defeat the West.
A Belligerent America Is Foiling Putin’s Strategy
The 2022 invasion of Ukraine marked only the peak of Russia’s long turn toward revisionism. Since the Cold War ended, Russia has sought to shape Europe’s security architecture and impose its will on smaller neighbors. The Kremlin has also clashed with the United States and Europe at the United Nations and in other multilateral bodies. Its leaders condemned the concept of a rules-based international order as a Western invention meant to cement U.S. hegemony. Styling itself as a vanguard promoting a more multipolar order, Russia sought to increase its own global clout, unencumbered by restraints and rules.