schröderisation

A form of Schröderization — The co-opting of business or political figures by a foreign regime, specifically Russia.

Meanings

schröderisation1

nounschröderisation (countable and uncountable, plural schröderisations)

plural schröderisations

  1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of Schröderisation.

Schröderisation2

nounSchröderisation (uncountable)
  1. UKalternativeuncountablegovernmentAlternative spelling of Schröderization.

    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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    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

    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

    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".

    2020, Mathieu Fulla, “French Socialists, Capitalism and the State: A Unique Approach within West European Social Democracy?”, in Mathieu Fulla, Marc Lazar, editors, 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, →DOI, →ISBN, part III (Socialists and Changes in Capitalism and States), page 277

Origin

  1. GermanSchröder
  2. EnglishSchröderisation

From German Schröder + English -isation (suffix forming nouns denoting the act, process, or result of doing or making something); see further at Schröderization.

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schröderisation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schr%C3%B6derisation

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“schröderisation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schr%C3%B6derisation. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “schröderisation,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schr%C3%B6derisation.

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