For more than a year and a half after Donald Trump’s election, is American democracy following in the footsteps of Putin’s autocracy? The characteristics of a political style long associated with the Russian regime are increasingly visible in the United States, warns Dimitri Minic, the scientific director of the Russia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia Observatory at Ifri, in a recent paper entitled “The toxic mirror of Russia: how a political style that weakened Moscow is eroding American power today.” According to this specialist in Russian strategic thinking, the observation is clear: “The specificities of the Russian political style are found today in the United States, not through the export of the Russian regime as such, but due to the emergence of similar power logics, amidst internal vulnerabilities.”
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Dimitri Minic warns about the rising similarities between Russian and American political styles and the potential impact on democracy in the US.
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Dimitri Minic is a researcher and scientific director at the Russia, Eastern Europe, South Caucasus, and Central Asia Observatory at Ifri. Information about his book and award may need specific verification.
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Dimitri Minic is a researcher and scientific director at the Russia, Eastern Europe, South Caucasus, and Central Asia Observatory at Ifri. He is the author of “Russian strategic thought and culture: from the evasion of armed struggle to the war in Ukraine,” a work based on his thesis and awarded the Prix Albert Thibaudet 2023.
