| The role of climate and energy policy in the 'long game' that will play out between Russia and the west has been overlooked. Vladimir Putin's land grab in Crimea has shocked the west into rethinking security strategy on the continent.
Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Moscow, has rightly argued in the New York Times that Putin has made a strategic pivot, and has abandoned reform and partnership with the west for a campaign to consolidate autocratic power at home and erect an alternative to western liberal democracy for the nations in its "near abroad"...............................................Full Article: Source
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