Full version Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest Review
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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.
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.