Russian Renewal
More recently, (former Russian president) Vladimir Putin has made "national champions" a central axis of his policy. The concept was introduced by Putin in his 1997 dissertation "Strategic Planning of the Reproduction of the Resource Bases." Putin, in turn, may have gotten the idea from a textbook by University of Pittsburgh analysts William King and David Cleland. Putin later expanded on the subject in an article published in 1999 in the Journal of the St. Petersburg Mining Institute.
Charles de Gaulle had also advocated similar ideas when he was the president of France in the 1950s.
Read more about this topic: National Champions
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