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Putin's Geopolitical Influence 2025: A Multi-Perspectival Scholarly Analysis
In an era of unprecedented global turbulence, no single leader has shaped-and disrupted-the international order more profoundly than Vladimir Putin. As Russia's war in Ukraine enters its fourth year and great power competition intensifies, understanding Putin's influence on world affairs has never been more critical.
Putin's Geopolitical Influence 2025 offers what no other book on Russian foreign policy provides: a rigorously balanced, multi-perspectival analysis that integrates Western academic traditions with Chinese, Russian, and Global South frameworks. Dr. Naim Tahir Baig, author of over 100 internationally published works on geopolitics and international relations, presents competing interpretations side by side-allowing readers to engage critically with the evidence and form their own informed assessments.
This comprehensive volume examines Putin's influence across every major theater of geopolitical competition. From the contested neighborhoods of the post-Soviet space-where Ukraine's fate hangs in the balance-to the shifting sands of the Middle East following Assad's fall in Syria; from the deepening Russia-China "no limits" partnership that reached a record $245 billion in bilateral trade in 2024, to Moscow's expanding footprint in Africa through the Wagner Group and its successors; from BRICS expansion that now encompasses eleven member nations representing nearly half the world's population, to the systematic challenge Russia poses to the Western-led liberal international order.
Drawing on primary sources including Putin's major speeches, Russian foreign policy doctrines (2000-2023), official documents, verified data from SIPRI, the IMF, World Bank, and Levada Center polling, as well as peer-reviewed scholarship from Western, Chinese, and Global South academic institutions, Dr. Baig constructs the most comprehensive analytical framework available for understanding Russian geopolitical power in the contemporary era.
The book addresses questions that define our geopolitical moment: Has Putin's gamble in Ukraine strengthened or weakened Russian influence globally? How has the "no limits" partnership with China evolved, and what does the growing asymmetry in this relationship portend? Why do two-thirds of the world's governments decline to join Western sanctions against Russia? What explains the resonance of Russian anti-Western narratives across the Global South? And what scenarios might unfold for Russian geopolitical influence in the post-Putin era?
Putin's Geopolitical Influence 2025 is essential reading for scholars of international relations, policy analysts, security professionals, diplomats, journalists covering global affairs, graduate students, and informed citizens seeking to understand the forces reshaping our world. With its commitment to epistemic humility, transparent sourcing, and multi-perspectival analysis, this volume sets a new standard for scholarship on contemporary Russian foreign policy.
Key Features:
- Multi-perspectival methodology integrating Western, Chinese, Russian, and Global South analytical frameworks
- Comprehensive regional coverage spanning post-Soviet space, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America
- Primary source foundation with all claims traceable to verifiable references
- Updated 2025 data including latest developments in Ukraine conflict, BRICS expansion, and Russia-China relations
- Scenario analysis for future trajectories of Russian geopolitical influence
- Extensive reference apparatus including chronology, primary source repository, and annotated bibliography
Baig, Naim Tahir: -
Dr. Naim Tahir Baig can be described as a Political Analyst, Geopolitical Strategist, Military and Security Studies Expert, Intelligence and Espionage Scholar, Social Commentator, Philosopher of Contemporary Issues, Digital Economy Specialist, Islamic Scholar and Interfaith Commentator, Poet and Literary Author, Regional Studies Expert, Multidisciplinary Intellectual, and Pakistan-Centric Analyst, reflecting his diverse expertise across politics, geopolitics, military strategy, intelligence, social commentary, business, religion, literature, and regional studies.
Published Books of Dr. Naim Tahir Baig
- Learn AI Fast: A Practical Guide for Busy Professionals
- Nuclear Orbits: From Soviet Satellites to Russian Space Power
- Trump vs. Putin: The Secrets Of Alaska Summit 2025
- Nuclear Weapons in Space
- Trump's Siege on the Fed: Politics, Power, and the Fracturing of Global Finance
- The Great Realignment
- The Last Rock's Secret War: Okinotorishima
- The New American Empire In 2025
- Fractured Faith: The Ken Paxton Divorce Scandal and the Crisis of Conservative Authenticity
- The Boomer Blockade: How an Aging Generation is Reshaping Global Power and Economics at Younger Generations' Expense
- Kiss Cam Crisis
- GAZA: The word 'ETHICS' is at stake
- Tarifaço: Trump's Tariff Assault on Brazil and the Battle for Hemispheric Power
- Love Seized
- Why Pakistan Can't Be Ignored ?
- Abandoning UNESCO, Abandoning America's Global Leadership
- Knowledge at the Cost of Drinking Water
- Artificial Intelligence Reshapes Nations' Strategic Cultures
- America Party
- Geopolitical Realignments And U.S. Decline
- Echoes of Love After Life
- After The Break-up
- Mental Health and Digital Wellness: Navigating the Hyper-Connected World
- Shadow War 2025: Israel's Secret Army Inside Iran
- Operation True Promise 3
- 2nd Edition: Operation Rising Lion: Israel's Strike Against Iran's Nuclear Program
- Behind The Veil Of Deception: Catherine Perez-Shakdam
- Operation Rising Lion 2025: Israel's Strike on Iran's Nuclear Program
