Taking On Revisionist Russia

Then, in the 1980 s, a revisionist history came along.

By antagonizing Germany, indeed all of the EU, Poland is merely encouraging a revisionist Russia.

In strategic terms, China is not a revisionist power, but instead a satisfied, status quo power.

On that count, Asia tends to be a status quo continent, while Europe is a revisionist one.

Barack Obama is right to try to reset relations with the Kremlin and engage a revisionist Russia.

Russia by contrast is a revisionist imperialist power, whose lack of self confidence is returning to haunt the world.

Russia s explosive revisionist behavior on the eve of the recent G8 summit is an indication of the Kremlin s unsatisfied nature.

Actually, from the 19th century on, there's a whole revisionist, reformist whatever you call it tradition, a trend in Islamic thinking.

But it was China s ability to sustain rapid economic growth for three decades that necessitated a revisionist look at statist capitalism.

But such a plan cannot be counted on to curb Putin's broader revisionist ambitions. Only a united and determined West can do that.

A resurgent Russia is the world s foremost revisionist power, rejecting a status quo predicated on the notion of a Western victory in the Cold War.

The most serious weakness in Ferguson s presentation is his lack of sympathy for the civilizations dismissed as the rest, which also points to the most serious limitation of the revisionist case.

Like Austria Hungary, the EU finds itself lodged between two powerful neighbors a resurgent Russia intent on regaining lost influence, and a seemingly revisionist United States preoccupied with foreign military adventures.

But the Kremlin driven crisis would not be over. Indeed, Putin's revisionist agenda extends far beyond Ukraine to include the Finlandization of other nearby states, including EU members like Hungary and Romania.

China is, with the exception of Tibet, a satisfied and confident status quo empire. Russia by contrast is a revisionist imperialist power, whose lack of self confidence is returning to haunt the world.

Foremost among the new generation of revisionist historians was Niall Ferguson of Harvard University, whose television series, based on his new book Civilization The West and the Rest, has just started showing in Britain.

They are inspired by the nationalist ideology connected with Vladimir Jabotinsky, who founded Revisionist Zionism as a challenge to the more moderate version espoused by Israel's Founding Fathers like Chaim Weizmann and David Ben Gurion.

Torn between Europe and Asia in cultural and political terms, victimized by a dark, narcissistic instinct that pervades their reading of their past and their visions of the future, it should surprise no one that Russia is now behaving like a revisionist power.

The NIC discussed earlier drafts of its report with intellectuals and officials in 20 countries, and reports that none of the world s emerging powers has a revisionist view of international order along the lines of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union.

Revisionist powers like Russia, China, and Iran appear ready to confront the global economic and political order that the US and the West built after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But now one of these revisionists powers Russia is pushing ahead aggressively to recreate a near empire and a sphere of influence.