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How Russia Could Become a Significant Power Again |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Mark N. Katz |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 1,250 Words, 7,502 Characters |
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Many Russians maintain two strong beliefs about their country's role in the world. First, they are absolutely convinced that, despite everything that has happened, Russia not only should be a great power, but is one. Second, they fear that unless Russia is a great power, it will fall apart. They do not see any possibilities for Russia between these two extremes.
Russians who want their country to be a great power advance several arguments as to why it will be one again or even still is one: Russia was a great power in the past, it is the world's largest country, it possesses enormous wealth in the form of petroleum and other natural resources, and last but not least, it has a large army and a sizable nuclear arsenal.
None of these arguments, however, can withstand critical examinat...
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...ope and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Needless to say, Russia would not be playing the role of the former Soviet Union in this case.
Instead of leading to its dissolution, a Russia that stops trying to be the great power that it is no longer capable of being can instead start to become the great country that it could be, like Canada already is.
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