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Table of Contents

       I. PUTINIST AUTHORITARIANISM AND ANTI-AMERICANISM: AN INTRODUCTION

       A. PURPOSE

       B. IMPORTANCE

       C. HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY

       D. BACKGROUND

       1. Putin’s Evolving Anti-Americanism

       2. Putin’s Hybrid-Authoritarian Machine

       3. Implications of Russians’ Anti-Americanism

       E. METHODOLOGY AND SOURCES

       F. ROADMAP

       II. VLADIMIR PUTIN’S ANTI-AMERICANISM: OUTWARDLY FLUCTUATING BUT INTERNALLY CONSISTENT?

       A. PUTIN’S EARLY HISTORY

       1. Early Life and College

       2. Into the Shadows: Putin in the KGB and the Case for a Long Term Cognitive Predisposition

       B. YELTSIN ERA

       1. Putin in the Aftermath of Collapse

       2. Russia and the West in the 1990s: U.S. as an Inadvertent Contributor to Putinist Anti-Americanism

       a. NATO

       b. Balkans

       c. Economic Collapse and the Absence of U.S. Aid

       C. PUTIN: A SUDDEN THRUST INTO THE LIMELIGHT

       1. Putin’s Short-Lived Premiership and Acting Presidency

       a. Crisis in Chechnya

       b. Presidential Election of 2000

       D. PUTIN’S FIRST PRESIDENCY

       1. Integrate Into or With the West… or Neither?

       2. The Attacks of 9/11 and the Aftermath

       3. Brotherly Love: Putin and Bush

       4. Iraq and a Sudden Turn Against America?

       5. Elections of 2003 and 2004

       E. PUTIN’S SECOND PRESIDENCY

       1. Shift from the West

       2. America Inadvertently Plays into Putin’s Hand

       a. NATO

       b. The Future of U.S. Unilateralism

       c. BMD

       d. Western Turn by Former Constituent States

       3. Critical Reciprocity? Attack on Those who Criticize Him

       F. PRESIDENT TO PUPPETMASTER AND BACK AGAIN: PUTIN’S RECENT PREMIERSHIP AND RETURN TO THE PRESIDENCY

       1. Georgia

       2. The Obama-Medvedev Reset: Short Lived or DOA?

       3. The 2012 Election and Putin’s Third Term

       4. Ongoing Events

       G. CONCLUSIONS

       III. VLADIMIR PUTIN’S RUSSIA: BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND DICATORSHIP?

       A. WHAT MAKES AN AUTHORITARIAN STATE?

       1. True Authoritarian States

       2. Hybrid Authoritarian States

       B. PUTIN’S AUTHORITARIAN CONTROLLED