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Schröderization
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English
2021 April 7
Etymology
From en Schröder -ization de surname of the former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder (born 1944). en Schröderization refers to his actions of quickly agreeing to the Nord Stream pipeline project for Russia to supply natural gas to Germany before he stepped down as chancellor in 2005, and subsequently accepting paid positions in various Russian energy companies, which were widely criticized.
Pronunciation
en /ˌʃɹɜːdəɹaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ /-ɹɪ-/ RP
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en /ˌʃɹɜːdəɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/ /-ɹə-/ GA
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Noun
- en American spelling Oxford British spelling
en politics The co-opting of business or political figures by a foreign regime, specifically Russia. from early 21st c.
en The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press Columbus, Oh. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 2006 15 2 0011-3425 1041424599 Nevertheless, official Berlin's clearly heightened interest in the subject of human rights compels us to speak of the start of the "de-Schröderization" of German policy toward Moscow. on
en w:Donald Anderson, Baron Anderson of Swansea EU and Russia (EUC [European Union Committee] Report) House of Commons Debates https://web.archive.org/web/20161027040250/https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldhansrd/text/81010-0003.htm 27 October 2016 w:House of Lords of the United Kingdom London w:Parliament of the United Kingdom 10 October 2008 704, part no. 137 428 Clearly, as has been said, we should diversify sources of energy. As Edward Lucas says in his book The New Cold War, we should avoid the Finlandisation, or what he rather unkindly called the "Schröderisation", of western Europe.
en James Sherr The Implications of the Russia–Georgia War for European Security Svante E. Cornell; S[tephen] Frederick Starr The Guns of August 2008: Russia’s War in Georgia Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y. w:Routledge 2009 2015 223 https://books.google.com/books?id=oGVsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA223 978-0-7656-2507-6 Little awareness is shown of the aggressive uses of Russian economic power and its intelligence presence, not only in the former Soviet Union but, with increasing confidence and guile, in the new EU member states of Central and Southeastern Europe. It is Russia's novel modes of engagement, not "Cold War stereotypes," that explain why shreyderizatsia (Schröderization) has become part of the region's vocabulary.
en V[olodymyr] P[avlovych] Horbulin; O. F. Byelov; O. V. Lytvynenko The Security Situation around Ukraine: A General Description Ukraine’s National Security: An Agenda for the Security Sector Zürich; Berlin w:LIT Verlag 2010 46 https://books.google.com/books?id=a-EbwVTeR_EC&pg=PA46 978-3-643-80045-9 Despite the disagreement of Poland and Lithuania, the renewal of EU–Russia negotiations in November 2008 in relation to the development of a new general agreement is evidence of a gradual formation of separate political relations or possibly even a hint of ‘Schröderisation’ in the European Union. It should be noted that ‘Schröderisation’ is not about the construction of an EU–Russia union so much as the general softening of Washington’s attitude towards the Kremlin and development of Russia’s own domestic policy towards the West of deeper involvement with it.
en w:Boris Nemtsov The Adoption of the EU Magnitsky Law would be a Blow to the Criminal Regime w:Elena Servettaz Why Europe Needs a Magnitsky Law: Should the EU Follow the US? https://web.archive.org/web/20190128170527/http://magnitskybook.com/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/Nemtsov.pdf 28 January 2019 [United Kingdom?] Elena Servettaz April 2013 2013 55 https://magnitskybook.com/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/Nemtsov.pdf#page=2 978-2-9546298-0-3 But it is true that he [Vladimir Putin] has managed to pull off a "Schröderisation" (buying politicians, businessmen, etc.) of Europe.
en Dobrota Pucherová; Róbert Gáfrik Introduction: Which Postcolonial Europe? Dobrota Pucherová; Róbert Gáfrik Postcolonial Europe?: Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft [International Research on General and Comparative Literature] Leiden; Boston, Mass. Brill and Rodopi 2015 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=YyRACgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11 978-90-04-30384-3 0929-6999 According to the French commentator Françoise Thom, [Vladimir] Putin’s politics of re-integration of the former Soviet territory, in which the war in Ukraine is the first step, is ideologically accompanied by the rehabilitation of Sovietism, or even Stalinism, and economically by a ‘Schröderization’ of European elites by making Europe dependent on its gas and oil.
en Lars-Christian U. Talseth The Geoeconomic Dialogue (2006–2009) The Politics of Power: EU–Russia Energy Relations in the 21st Century Cham, Switzerland Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature 2017 185 https://books.google.com/books?id=UPz6DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA185 10.1007/978-3-319-33125-6 978-3-319-33125-6 In the end, [Angela] Merkel defeated [Gerhard] Schröder, leading many to believe that the ‘Schröderization’ of Germany’s Russia policy had come to an end. But it took more than promises to curb the appetite of German business interests in Russia, as Merkel would soon find out.
en Mathieu Fulla French Socialists, Capitalism and the State: A Unique Approach within West European Social Democracy? Mathieu Fulla; w:Marc Lazar European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements Cham, Switzerland Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature 2020 part III (Socialists and Changes in Capitalism and States) 277 https://books.google.com/books?id=E7b1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA277 10.1007/978-3-030-41540-2 978-3-030-41539-6 Like Gerhard Schröder and Tony Blair before him, François Hollande saw himself as driving a "third way" for socialism, between social democracy and liberalism. In the same spirit, several German media outlets, analysing the principles of the competitiveness pact, interpreted it as symbolic of the French president's "Schröderisation".
Alternative forms
en Schroderization Schröderisation schröderisation non-Oxford British spelling
Related terms
en Putinversteher
Translations
co-opting and corruption of foreign business or political figures by hostile regimes
German: de Schröderisierung f
Russian: ru шредеризация f
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