Imperial Gamble; Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War
Nancy Bratton Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2015. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xix, [3], 287, [1] pages. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Errata slip (folded) laid in. Marvin Leonard Kalb (born June 9, 1930) is an American journalist. Kalb was the founding director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. The Shorenstein Center and the Kennedy School are part of Harvard University. He is currently a James Clark Welling Fellow at George Washington University and a member of the Atlantic Community Advisory Board. He is a guest scholar in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. Kalb spent 30 years as an award-winning reporter for CBS News and NBC News. Kalb was the last newsman recruited by Edward R. Murrow to join CBS News, becoming part of the later generation of the "Murrow Boys." His work at CBS landed him on Richard Nixon's "enemies list". At NBC, he served as chief Diplomatic Correspondent and host of Meet the Press. Derived from a Kirkus review: The Cold War gets hotter, thanks to Russian ambitions to rebuild the Soviet empire—but, veteran foreign correspondent Kalb writes, thanks as well to Western ineptitude. It all comes down to Ukraine, a country that is really two countries, one Western-facing, the other bound to Russia. It’s the eastern one that Russia has been gnawing into, claiming bits of territory here and there, most notably the Crimea after the last Winter Olympics. There has been much mishandling on all sides, not least when pro-Russian forces shot down a civilian airliner. It will not please Moscow to read his criticisms of Putin, but neither will it please Kiev to learn that he considers much of its claim to autonomy from Russia to be misguided. Even though Russia has been the aggressor in the recent strife, he suggests that any accommodation will largely have to come from the Ukrainian side. The present administration is unlikely to warm to Kalb’s policy recommendations. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Russia, Putin, Ukraine, Crimea, Kiev, NATO, Orange Revolution, Poroshenko, Tymoshenko, Yanukovych, Yuschenko, Yatsenyuk, Mongol, Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Taiga, Malaysian Airliner Flight 17
ISBN: 9780815726647
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