Russia's New Engineering Policy in Global Politics

Abstract

In this study, the authors give a definition, basis and description of a new conceptual metaphor “solid power”. The main hypothesis of the authors is based on the fact that the American concepts of soft and smart power allow to build doctrines, strategies and scenarios that support for ideological formation of policy “hard power” veiled under the idea of promoting the “model” of American democracy and the justification of military intervention and economic pressure on other countries, with the voluntary consent / participation of citizens. The United States are rapidly losing their political credibility in the international arena. De facto: the impetus for this was the events in Ukraine, which exposed the weak points in the American law enforcement scenarios. The authors believe that Russia is pursuing a new script, based on “solid power” as a new form of political power, the basis of which is the: dialogue, trust, unity. The authors came to the conclusion that Russia by using such resource as “solid power” is able to withstand “hard power”, that is the power that actually became a legitimate tool of American foreign policy

We need to talk about engineering policy

“…Three of them cover directly the perspective we are taking here, a chapter by [10], and two chapters by [12,13] in related volumes concerning the philosophy of engineering. Also of potential interest is a paper titled 'Russia's new engineering policy' [14]. However, on inspection this is not about 'engineering policy' as meant here and so was excluded.…”

Nato and Russian Political Policy on Eastern Europe

“…To compensate for the military power of the West, the Warsaw Pact military alliance was established and based in the city of a satellite country in Eastern Europe, namely Warsaw, Poland. However, the geopolitical and geostrategic map has entirely changed since the Cold War ended (Karpova, Karpov, & Kruchkov, 2015).…”

“…The policy of Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to come under pressure from Western economic sanctions (Karpova, Karpov, & Kruchkov, 2015). A series of sanctions imposed by the EU and the US, the first step of the US has announced the prohibition of visas and blocking of assets to Russian officials who are in the US and take precautions if there are US citizens who want to do business with Russians and Ukrainians (Wolff, 2015).…”

Information warfare technologies in political discourse

“…The EU proceeds with saving face of a humane referee, supports legal taboo in the international arena, and applies a "double standards" technique. Russia uses "spin therapy" to prove annexation of the Crimea, to support the national idea and to deflect citizens' attention away from current economic, political, social sphere issues [10]. The Ukrainian political technologists, who have not yet acquired "spin" skill, represent mockery of actions without guiding lines of further development, and consequently fail.…”