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Putin's world : Russia against the West and with the rest
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?
Subjects
- Ideology > Russia (Federation)
- Russia (Federation) > Foreign relations.
- Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 1991-
- Russia (Federation) > Foreign relations > Western countries.
- Western countries > Foreign relations > Russia (Federation)
- Russia (Federation) > Foreign relations > United States.
- United States > Foreign relations > Russia (Federation)
- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952- > Political and social views.