Marcel H. Van Herpen is director of the Cicero Foundation, a think tank based in Maastricht and Paris. He specializes in defense and security developments in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union. His books include Putinism: The Slow Rise of a Radical Right Regime in Russia and Putin's Wars: The Rise of Russia's New Imperialism. His personal website is [...]

Author Note and Acknowledgments
Glossary and Abbreviations
Introduction

Part I: The Search for Russian "Soft Power"
Chapter 1: Russian Soft Power: Hard Power in a Velvet Glove
Chapter 2: The Three Components of the Russian Soft Power Offensive: Mimesis, Roll Back, and Invention
Chapter 3: "Reputation Laundering": How Western PR Firms Help Improve the Kremlin's Image
Chapter 4: The Propaganda Offensive in the Western Media
-Part I: The Creation of Russia Today (RT), Russia beyond the Headlines, and Rossiya Segodnya
Chapter 5: The Propaganda Offensive in the Western Media
-Part II: Buying Western Newspapers, The Increasing Grip on the Social Media, The "Kremlin School of Bloggers"
Chapter 6: Financing Politicians and Political Parties
Chapter 7: Spies and Spooks as Soft Power Instruments

Part II: Creating a New Missionary Ideology: The Role of the Russian Orthodox Church
Chapter 8: The Russian Orthodox Church: The Kremlin's Secret "Soft Power" Weapon?
Chapter 9:Attacking Universal Human Rights in the International Forums
Chapter 10: A Global Church for the Kremlin?
Chapter 11: The Russian Orthodox Church: A Pillar of Russian Neo-Imperialism?

Part III: Undermining Atlanticism: Building a "Strategic Triangle" Moscow-Berlin-Paris
Chapter 12: An Emerging Moscow-Berlin Axis?
Chapter 13: Germany's Kremlin-Friendly Political Class
Chapter 14: Russian-German "Verflechtung": Creating Mutual Economic Interdependence
Chapter 15: The Kremlin's Conquest of France
Chapter 16: Conclusions

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About the Author