Putin's World; Russia Against the West and With the Rest
Matt Mendelsohn (Author photograph) New York: Twelve, 2019. First Hardcover Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. [8], 433, [7] pages. Map. Illustrations (color). Notes. Bibliography. Index. Angela E. Stent is a foreign policy expert specializing in US and European relations with Russia and Russian foreign policy. She is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and director of its Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies. Stent joined the Government Department at Georgetown University in 1979. In 2001, she received a joint appointment as Professor of Government and Foreign Service and became Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies. From 1999 to 2001, she served in the Office of Policy Planning in both the Clinton and Bush Administrations, where she was responsible for Russia and Eastern Europe. From 2004 to 2006, she was the National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. From 2008 to 2012, she was a member of Supreme Allied Commander in Europe advisory panel. Her first book was From Embargo to Ostpolitik: the Political Economy of West German-Soviet Relations. Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe was her second book. In it, she analyzed the tumultuous events that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the emergence of modern Russia, and the reunification of West and East Germany. When Stent asked Gorbachev what world leader he most admired, his answer was "Ronald Reagan was the greatest western statesman with whom I dealt. He was an intelligent and astute politician who had vision and imagination. 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. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Russia, Vladimir Putin, Crimea, Cold War, European Union, Energy Security, Sergei Lavrov, NATO, Sanctions, Sino-Russian, Terrorism, Donald Trump, Ukraine Crisis, US-Russia Relations, Yanukovych, Yeltsin
ISBN: 9781455533022
[Book #85011]
Price: $35.00