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JUST PUBLISHED: (January 2024)

The third, enlarged, and completely updated edition of

Marcel H. Van Herpen

PUTIN’s WARS

The Rise of Russia’s New Imperialism

The book which predicted the occupation of the Donbas and the Crimea before it happened!

On the internal war in Russia, the Chechen War, the war in Georgia, the invasion in Ukraine in 2014,and its aftermath. The book is completed with an in-depth analysis of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022-2024 and an assessment of the outcome of the war.


https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538183861/Putin’s-Wars-The-Rise-of-Russia’s-New-Imperialism-Third-Edition

*****EUROPE NEEDS CICERO

VITTORIO BUFACCHI
Department of Philosophy
University College Cork
Ireland
*****REACTIONARY THINKING:
WHAT IS ITS IMPACT IN CONTEMPORARY POLITICS?

RICHARD SHORTEN
Associate Professor in Political Theory,
University of Birmingham, UK
*****DOES PUTIN HAVE A CONSCIENCE?
THE TWO VALUE SYSTEMS OF A CONSUMMATE CYNIC



MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director, The Cicero Foundation

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*****HOW WILL AI INFLUENCE POLITICS?
CHANCE OR DANGER FOR DEMOCRACY?

GEORGIOS I. ZEKOS, PhD.
International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki
*****THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF POPULISM

Dr. PETAR STANKOV
Economics Department
Royal Holloway
University of London
*****WHY HAS UTOPIA BECOME A DIRTY WORD?

MARK JENDRYSIK, PhD.
Professor
University of North Dakota
USA
***** GENERATION Z
“Lost” or Emerging Generation?

LAURIE L. RICE & KENNETH W. MOFFETT
Professors of Political Science
Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville, IL., USA
***** TACTICAL RETREAT?
The Challenge of Reducing and Eliminating Tactical Nuclear Weapons

Dr. TIM STREET
Director
Nuclear Information Service, UK
12
July
2021
RUSSIA AND NATO
Does the Kremlin Suffer from a Encirclement Syndrome?

Dr. OXANA SCHMIES
Security Expert, Berlin
30
March
2021
THE END OF POPULISM
Twenty Proposals to Defend Liberal Democracy
NEW BOOK BY MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director, Cicero Foundation
17
March 2021
WHY DO WE BELIEVE IN CONSPIRACY THEORIES?
Dr. MICHAEL BUTTER
Professor of American Literary and Cultural History
University of Tübingen, Germany
10
March
2021
THE GREAT WAR AND THE SHAPING OF CONTEMPORARY U.S. ISOLATIONISM
Dr. KENNETH D. ROSE
California State University
History Department
9
March
2021
DEMOCRATIC DECAY: WHY DOES IT HAPPEN AND WHAT CAN WE DO TO PREVENT IT FROM HAPPENING?
NATASHA LINDSTAEDT
Deputy Dean of Education, Social Sciences
Department of Government
University of Essex
27
Nov.
2020
TRUMP AND THE PROTESTANTS – How Do the Religious Right and Left Use History in a Populist Era?
Dr. MATTHEW ROWLEY
Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester
Research Associate at the Cambridge Institute on Religion & International Relations
17
Nov.
2020
“NO BETTER FRIEND” -Assessing the ‘Special’ Nature of the Canada-Ukraine Relationship
Dr. BOHDAN S. KORDAN
Professor of International Relations
Director, Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
24
August
2020
PUTIN 2036 – THE NEXT SIXTEEN YEARS: WHAT CAN WE EXPECT?
VLADIMIR TISMANEANU
Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland
KATE C. LANGDON
Erasmus Mundus Scholar
4
April 2020
“THE PEOPLE” VERSUS DEMOCRACY: A NEW DILEMMA
LARRY ALAN BUSK
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Modern Languages California State University, Stanislaus
4
April 2020
TWO FACES OF “TWITTER POPULISM” IN THE NETHERLANDS
THE DIFFERENT STRATEGIES OF WILDERS’S PVV AND BAUDET’S FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY

PETER VERWEIJ
Director
D3-M The Netherlands
16
Dec. 2019
POPULISM IN ITALY
Exploring the Ideological Roots of Lega and the Five Star Movement

LUCA MANUCCI
University of Lisbon
Institute of Social Sciences
13
Sept. 2019
THE END OF WHITEHALL?
PATRICK DIAMOND
Assistant Professor in Public Policy
Queen Mary, University of London
10
July 2019
DEBUNKING THE MYTH OF ‘THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE’
ALBERT WEALE
Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy
University College London
9
July 2019
THE UK AFTER BREXIT: WILL AND CAN THE ANGLOSPHERE REPLACE THE EU?
ANDREW MYCOCK AND BEN WELLINGS
University of Huddersfield (UK) and Monash University (Australia)
7
June 2019
EARLY LIBERALS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE
Their Fear of Populists and ‘Dangerous’ People

MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director
The Cicero Foundation
3
Sept. 2018
HOW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS BURIED THE HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA
MICHAEL BLAKE
Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy, and Governance
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
18
June 2018
THE RISE OF KREMLIN-FRIENDLY POPULISM IN THE NETHERLANDS
MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director
The Cicero Foundation
31
May 2018
CONFRONTING THE WICKED PROBLEM OF FAKE NEWS:
A ROLE FOR EDUCATION?

DONALD A. BARCLAY
University of California
1
Nov. 2017
HOW TO SAVE POLITICS IN A POST-TRUTH ERA?
ILAN ZVI BARON
Associate Professor
School of Government and International Affairs
Durham University, UK
14
July 2017
THE DANGER OF “RUSSIAN HYBRID WARFARE”
DR. OFER FRIDMAN
Department of War Studies
King s College, London
9
June 2017
POPULISM AND THE WEALTH PARADOX
FRANK MOLS AND JOLANDA JETTEN
University of Queensland
Australia
4
July 2016
RUSSIA s NUCLEAR THREATS AND THE SECURITY OF THE BALTIC STATES
MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director
The Cicero Foundation
2
Dec. 2015
PUTINs WARS:
The Rise of Russia s New Imperialism

MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director
The Cicero Foundation
2
Dec. 2015
PUTIN s PROPAGANDA MACHINE:
Soft Power and Russian Foreign Policy

MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director
The Cicero Foundation
11
Aug. 2015
UKRAINE AND RUSSIA:
IN SEARCH OF A DIVERGENT FUTURE

VOLODYMYR KRAVCHENKO
Director, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada
24
June 2015
THE GREEK GOLDEN DAWN: REASONS BEHIND THE EXTREME RIGHTs REVIVAL IN TE CRADLE OF DEMOCRACY
DAPHNE HALIKIOPOULOU
SOFIA VASILOPOULOU
Resp. University of Reading and University of York
9
Dec. 2014
THE INFORMATION WAR ON UKRAINE
NEW CHALLENGES

Dr. JOLANTA DARCZEWSKA
Deputy Director
Centre for Eastern Studies
Warsaw
24
June 2014
RUSSIA-BALTIC RELATIONS AFTER CRIMEAs ANNEXATION: REASONS FOR CONCERN?
AGNIA GRIGAS PhD
Fellow at the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs at Occidental College
Los Angeles, CA
Former Advisor of the Lithuanian Government
20
Dec. 2013
‘TRADITIONAL VALUES’ AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Whose Traditions? Which Rights?

MICHAEL BLAKE
Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, USA
10
April 2013
CORRUPTION IN EUROPE:
WHAT CAN BE DONE?

LAURENCE COCKCROFT
Co-Founder Transparency International (TI)
Chairman TI(UK) 2000-2008
1
Sept. 2011
THE NORTHERN FOREIGN POLICY OF RUSSIA
What is the Long-Term Strategy of Russia in the Baltic Sea and Arctic Regions?

INGMAR OLDBERG
Research Associate
Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Stockholm
POPULISM, JOHNSON, AND BREXIT

ANDREW RICHARD RYDER

Associate Professor
Eötvös Lorand University
Budapest
IS HUNGARY’S ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY A MODEL FOR OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES?

ROBERT CSEHI
Bavarian School of Public Administration, Munich, Germany
HAS SOCIAL DEMOCRACY STILL A FUTURE?
Dr. ROB MANWARING
Flinders University
Australia
THE VIRUS DOES NOT CARE WHAT YOU THINK
Dr. TIM AISTROPE
Lecturer in International Relations
School of Politics and International Relations
University of Kent, UK
AFTER BREXIT: THINKING BEYOND THE EUROPEAN CRISIS
GERARD DELANTY
Department of Sociology
University of Sussex
Brighton, UK
THE PRESSING MESSAGE OF RUSSIAN DISSIDENTS:
A LESSON FOR WESTERN LIBERALS

NICOLAS TENZER
Chairman CERAP, Paris
THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH: TOWARD A NEW, GLOBAL ROLE?
GREG SIMONS
Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Uppsala, Sweden
Interview: How to Debunk Russian Propaganda?
The Work of StopFake.org

YEVHEN FEDCHENKO
Co-Founder StopFake.org
Director Mohyla School of Journalism, Kyiv
THE POSITION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES IN PUTINs RUSSIA
Uniformity or Diversity?

FEDERICA PRINA
University of Glasgow
UK
OSCE ‘BIS’:
A NEW EUROPEAN SECURITY INITIATIVE

JAN PIEKLO
Director
PAUCI Foundation
Warsaw, Poland
Kyiv, Ukraine
HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION: OUGHT THE UNITED NATIONS TO HAVE AN INCREASING OR DIMINISHING ROLE?
ROSA FREEDMAN
Lecturer at Birmingham Law School
University of Birmingham, U.K.
UKRAINE: WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF THE PASSENGERS OF THE MH17?
A TEN POINT COMMENTARY

MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director
The Cicero Foundation
KALININGRAD: WHAT IS ITS FUNCTION IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA?
GREG SIMONS
Uppsala Centre for Russian
and Eurasian Studies
ETHNIC CLEANSING IN THE BALKANS
Why Did It Happen and Could It Happen Again?

PAUL MOJZES
Rosemont College
Rosemont, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
CRISIS AND THE FUTURE OF EUROPE
JOHN McCORMICK
Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Politics
Indiana University
Indianapolis, USA
MARX AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Analysis of an Ambivalent Relationship

MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director
The Cicero Foundation
RUSSIA AND SYRIA
Why Putin Supports the Bashar Al-Assad Regime

TALAL NIZAMEDDIN
American University of Beirut
UKRAINE, EUROPE, AND BANDERA
ALEXANDER J. MOTYL
Professor of Political Science
Rutgers University, Newark
RISING ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE
How to Respond?

Prof. GERT WEISSKIRCHEN, MP
Foreign Policy Spokesman
SPD Fraction German Bundestag

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