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Putin's world : Russia against the West and with the rest /

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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 U.S. ambivalence about whether it still wants...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stent, Angela (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Twelve, [2019].
Edition:First hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Russia (Federation) > Foreign relations.
Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 1991-
Russia (Federation) > Foreign relations > Western countries.
Western countries > Foreign relations > Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Russia (Federation)
Ideology > Russia (Federation)
Table of Contents:
  • The weight of the past
  • The Russian idea
  • Ambivalent Europeans
  • Russia and Germany : the fateful relationship
  • The "main opponent" : Russia and NATO
  • Russia and its "near abroad" : how civilized a divorce?
  • "The past is always changing" : Russia and Ukraine
  • Russia and China : duo of the willing?
  • Wary neighbors : Russia and Japan in the shadow of World War Two
  • The new power broker : Russia and the Middle East
  • Three failed resets : Russia and America before the Trump era
  • The rivals : Russia and America in the age of Trump
  • What kind of engagement with Russia?