Schröderization

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1. BritishEnglishOxfordUSuncountablegovernmentThe co-opting of business or political figures by a foreign regime, specifically Russia.First known use early 21st c.

   But it is true that he [Vladimir Putin] has managed to pull off a "Schröderisation" (buying politicians, businessmen, etc.) of Europe.

   2013 April, Boris Nemtsov, quotee, “The Adoption of the EU Magnitsky Law would be a Blow to the Criminal Regime”, in Elena Servettaz, editor, Why Europe Needs a Magnitsky Law: Should the EU Follow the US?, [United Kingdom?]: Elena Servettaz, published 2013, →ISBN, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2019, page 55

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   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.

   [2006, The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, Columbus, Oh.: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 2

   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.

   2008 October 10, Donald Anderson, Baron Anderson of Swansea, “EU and Russia (EUC [European Union Committee] Report)”, in House of Commons Debates (House of Lords of the United Kingdom), volume 704, part no. 137, London: Parliament of the United Kingdom, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2016, column 428

   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.

   2009, James Sherr, “The Implications of the Russia–Georgia War for European Security”, in Svante E. Cornell, S[tephen] Frederick Starr, editors, The Guns of August 2008: Russia’s War in Georgia (Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2015, →ISBN, page 223

   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.

   2010, V[olodymyr] P[avlovych] Horbulin, O. F. Byelov, O. V. Lytvynenko, “The Security Situation around Ukraine: A General Description”, in Ukraine’s National Security: An Agenda for the Security Sector, Zürich; Berlin: LIT Verlag, →ISBN, page 46

   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.

   2015, Dobrota Pucherová, Róbert Gáfrik, “Introduction: Which Postcolonial Europe?”, in Dobrota Pucherová, Róbert Gáfrik, editors, 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, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 11