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War in Ukraine - Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict

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"Russia's brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible, and highly informative primer, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies insist the picture is more complicated. Yes, Russia's aggression was reckless and, ultimately, indefensible. But the West's reneging on promises to halt eastward expansion of NATO in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union played a major part in prompting Putin to act. So did the U.S. involvement in the 2014 Ukraine coup and Ukraine's failure to implement the Minsk peace agreements. The result is a conflict that is increasingly difficult to resolve, one that could conceivably escalate into all-out war between the United States and Russia--the world's two leading nuclear powers. Skilfully bringing together the historical record and current analysis, War in Ukraine looks at the events leading up to the conflict, surveys the different parties involved, and weighs the risks of escalation and opportunities for peace. For anyone who wants to get beneath the heavily propagandized media coverage to an understanding of a war with consequences that could prove cataclysmic, reading this timely book will be an urgent necessity." -- [page 1]

List of contents

Preface
Introduction: Collision Course 
Chapter 1: How 2014 Set the Stage for War
Chapter 2: The Success and Failure of the Minsk II Peace Plan
Chapter 3: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Chapter 4: NATO: Myth vs. Reality
Chapter 5: Information Warfare
Chapter 6: The Consequences of Sanctions on Russia
Chapter 7: How Does the War Increase the Risk of Nuclear Confrontation?
Conclusion: How on Earth Will This End?

About the author

Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of CODEPINK and the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. She is the author of Drone WarfareKingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.–Saudi Connection and Inside Iran. In 2012, she was awarded the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation’s Peace Prize; she is also recipient of the 2014 Gandhi Peace Award and the 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Nicolas J.S. Davies is the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq. He has written extensively for Huffington Post, Alternet, Consortium NewsCommon DreamsSalonThe Progressive, and Foreign Policy In Focus.

Summary

Russia’s brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible and highly informative primer, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies insist the picture is more complicated.

Yes, Russia’s aggression was reckless and, ultimately, indefensible. But the West’s reneging on promises to halt eastward expansion of NATO in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union played a major part in prompting Putin to act. So did the U.S. involvement in the 2014 Ukraine coup and Ukraine's failure to implement the Minsk peace agreements. The result is a conflict that is increasingly difficult to resolve, one that could conceivably escalate into all-out war between the United States and Russia—the world’s two leading nuclear powers.

Skillfully bringing together the historical record and current analysis, War In Ukraine looks at the events leading up to the conflict, surveys the different parties involved, and weighs the risks of escalation and opportunities for peace. For anyone who wants to get beneath the heavily propagandized media coverage to an understanding of a war with consequences that could prove cataclysmic, reading this timely book will be an urgent necessity.

Foreword


  • Leverage authors’ substantial activist networks and social media followings to promote the book.

  • Pitch op-eds, excerpts, and reviews to a wide array of publications including The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, The Nation, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Intercept, Bookforum, The Independent, Tribune, Morning Star, Monthly Review, and more.

  • Pitch television, radio, and podcast interviews to shows including Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera’s UpFront, The Dig, Intercepted, Citations Needed, On the Media, Rumble with Michael Moore, Under the Skin with Russell Brand, Useful Idiots, Bad Faith, Breaking Points, Empire Files, American Prestige, and more.

Product details

Authors Medea Benjamin, Benjamin Medea, Nicolas J. S. Davies
Assisted by Katrina vanden Heuvel (Foreword)
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.11.2022
 
EAN 9781682193716
ISBN 978-1-68219-371-6
No. of pages 108
Dimensions 127 mm x 177 mm x 13 mm
Weight 212 g
Illustrations Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989)
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, War & defence operations, Specific wars & campaigns, Invasion, conquest and occupation

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