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Putin's world : Russia against the West and with the rest

Call Number

  • 327.47 S826 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Twelve, 2019.

Physical Description

433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : map, portraits (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Summary

We all now live in a paranoid and polarized world of Putin's making, and the Russian leader, through guile and disruption, has resurrected Russia's status as a force to be reckoned with. From renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent comes a must-read dissection of present-day Russian motives on the global stage. How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Or has Russia stepped into a vacuum created by the West's distraction with its own domestic problems and US ambivalence about whether it still wants to act as a superpower? Putin's World examines the country's turbulent past, how it has influenced Putin, the Russians' understanding of their position on the global stage, and their future ambitions-and their conviction that the West has tried to deny them a seat at the table of great powers since the USSR collapsed. This book looks at Russia's key relationships, its downward spiral with the United States, Europe, and NATO; its ties to China, Japan, the Middle East; and with its neighbors, particularly the fraught relationship with Ukraine. Putin's World will help Americans understand how and why the post-Cold War era has given way to a new, more dangerous world, one in which Russia poses a challenge to the United States in every corner of the globe-and one in which Russia has become a toxic and divisive subject in US politics.

Contents

  • The weight of the past
  • The Russian idea
  • Ambivalent Europeans
  • Russia and Germany : the fateful relationship
  • The "main opponent" : Russia and NATO
  • Russia and its "near abroad" : how civilized a divorce?
  • "The past is always changing" : Russia and Ukraine
  • Russia and China : duo of the willing?
  • Wary neighbors : Russia and Japan in the shadow of World War Two
  • The new power broker : Russia and the Middle East
  • Three failed resets : Russia and America before the Trump era
  • The rivals : Russia and America in the age of Trump
  • What kind of engagement with Russia?

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