From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia /

A revelatory, behind-the-scenes acount of Rusian-American relations from the optimistic days of the end of communism in the Reagan-Gorbachev era to the confrontational era of Putin. In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join President-elect Barack Obama's nat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McFaul, Michael, 1963- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]
Subjects:	McFaul, Michael, > 1963- United States > Foreign relations > Russia (Federation) Russia (Federation) > Foreign relations > United States. United States > Foreign relations > 1989- United States > Foreign relations > 2009-2017. Ambassadors > Russia (Federation) > Biography. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy. POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union. POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch.

Table of Contents:

REVOLUTION. The first reset ; Democrats of the world, unite! ; Yeltsin's partial revolution ; Putin's thermidor
RESET. Change we can believe in ; Launching the reset ; Universal values ; The first (and last) Moscow Summit ; New START ; Denying Iran the bomb ; Hard accounts: Russia's neighborhood and missile defense ; Burgers and spies ; The Arab Spring, Libya, and the beginning of the end of the reset ; Becoming "His Excellency"
REACTION. Putin needs an enemy: America, Obama, and me ; Getting physical ; Pushback ; Twitter and the two-step ; It takes two to tango ; Chasing Russians, failing Syrians ; Dueling on human rights ; Going home ; Annexation and war in Ukraine ; The end of resets (for now)
Epilogue: Trump and Putin.