Putin's Geopolitical Influence 2025

<p>BOOK DESCRIPTION</p><p>Putin's Geopolitical Influence 2025: A Multi-Perspectival Scholarly Analysis</p><p>In an era of unprecedented global turbulence no single leader has shaped-and disrupted-the international order more profoundly than Vladimir Putin. As Russia's war in Ukraine enters its fourth year and great power competition intensifies understanding Putin's influence on world affairs has never been more critical.</p><p><strong>Putin's Geopolitical Influence 2025</strong> offers what no other book on Russian foreign policy provides: a rigorously balanced multi-perspectival analysis that integrates Western academic traditions with Chinese Russian and Global South frameworks. Dr. Naim Tahir Baig author of over 100 internationally published works on geopolitics and international relations presents competing interpretations side by side-allowing readers to engage critically with the evidence and form their own informed assessments.</p><p>This comprehensive volume examines Putin's influence across every major theater of geopolitical competition. From the contested neighborhoods of the post-Soviet space-where Ukraine's fate hangs in the balance-to the shifting sands of the Middle East following Assad's fall in Syria; from the deepening Russia-China no limits partnership that reached a record $245 billion in bilateral trade in 2024 to Moscow's expanding footprint in Africa through the Wagner Group and its successors; from BRICS expansion that now encompasses eleven member nations representing nearly half the world's population to the systematic challenge Russia poses to the Western-led liberal international order.</p><p>Drawing on primary sources including Putin's major speeches Russian foreign policy doctrines (2000-2023) official documents verified data from SIPRI the IMF World Bank and Levada Center polling as well as peer-reviewed scholarship from Western Chinese and Global South academic institutions Dr. Baig constructs the most comprehensive analytical framework available for understanding Russian geopolitical power in the contemporary era.</p><p>The book addresses questions that define our geopolitical moment: Has Putin's gamble in Ukraine strengthened or weakened Russian influence globally? How has the no limits partnership with China evolved and what does the growing asymmetry in this relationship portend? Why do two-thirds of the world's governments decline to join Western sanctions against Russia? What explains the resonance of Russian anti-Western narratives across the Global South? And what scenarios might unfold for Russian geopolitical influence in the post-Putin era?</p><p><strong>Putin's Geopolitical Influence 2025</strong> is essential reading for scholars of international relations policy analysts security professionals diplomats journalists covering global affairs graduate students and informed citizens seeking to understand the forces reshaping our world. With its commitment to epistemic humility transparent sourcing and multi-perspectival analysis this volume sets a new standard for scholarship on contemporary Russian foreign policy.</p><p><strong>Key Features:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Multi-perspectival methodology</strong> integrating Western Chinese Russian and Global South analytical frameworks</li><li><strong>Comprehensive regional coverage</strong> spanning post-Soviet space Europe Asia-Pacific Middle East Africa and Latin America</li><li><strong>Primary source foundation</strong> with all claims traceable to verifiable references</li><li><strong>Updated 2025 data</strong> including latest developments in Ukraine conflict BRICS expansion and Russia-China relations</li><li><strong>Scenario analysis</strong> for future trajectories of Russian geopolitical influence</li><li><strong>Extensive reference apparatus</strong> including chronology primary source repository and annotated bibliography</li></ul>