Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256164 
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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comments No. 26/2011
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
The EU's current policy towards Russia assumes that the Kremlin is interested in a comprehensive national modernisation programme and has the power to put this into practice. But what if this assumption turns out to be incorrect? Numerous structural obstacles give grounds for scepticism that Russia will manage to implement such an endeavour. Without modernisation Russia will weaken, but will be unwilling to relinquish its international aspirations. The EU needs to prepare for a situation where the premises of its Russia policy no longer apply, and should lose no time in preparing a Plan B
Document Type: 
Research Report

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