Putin s World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest

Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest Wydawca: Twelve Opis produktu **From renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent comes a dissection of how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world -- and increased Russia's status 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. Specyfikacja SKU: TWLE044815161 EAN: 9781455533022 Waga: 703 g Author: Stent, Angela Binding: Hardcover Pages: 448 Publication Year: 2019 BISAC Category 1: POL011000 BISAC Category 2: POL060000 BISAC Category 3: HIS032000