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This book examines how Putin's Russia emerged as one of the great powers, demanding recognition of its status in international politics.
List of contents
Introduction; 1. Cold War to cold peace; 2. Order without hegemony; 3. Russian grievances; 4. Resistance and neo-revisionism; 5. Europe, Eurasia and heartland conflicts; 6. After the cold peace; 7. Remilitarisation and the new apocalypse; 8. America and global leadership; 9. The EU, Europe and Russia; 10. Towards a post-western world; 11. The new globalism and the politics of resistance; Conclusion.
About the author
Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent and an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. He graduated in History from the London School of Economics and took a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham. He has published widely on Soviet, Russian and post-communist affairs. Recent books include Russian Politics and Society (2008), Putin: Russia's Choice (2008), The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism, and the Medvedev Succession (Cambridge, 2011), Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky – Yukos Affair (2014) and Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia (2014). His latest book is Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands (2016).
Summary
This book explores how the tension between Russia and the Atlantic community mirrored a fundamental realignment of the international system from the late 1980s onwards. A valuable new resource for students and scholars of Russian politics, international relations, European politics and security studies.
