The New Cold War
How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West
1st Edition
Published on 12. April 2012
384 pages
978-1-4088-3219-6 (ISBN)
Description
Revised and updated with a new preface on the Crimean crisis
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'An impressive polemic arguing that the West still underestimates the danger that Putin's Russia poses ... A useful appeal for vigilance' - Sunday Times
'Highly informed, crisply written and alarming ... Wise up and stick together is the concluding message in Lucas's outstanding book' - Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard
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While most of the world was lauding the stability and economic growth that Vladimir Putin's ex-KGB regime had brought to Russia, Edward Lucas was ringing alarm bells. First published in 2008 and since revised, The New Cold War remains the most insightful and informative account of Russia today. It depicts the regime's crushing of independent institutions and silencing of critics, taking Russia far away from the European mainstream. It highlights the Kremlin's use of the energy weapon in Europe, the bullying of countries in the former Soviet empire, such as Estonia, Georgia and Ukraine - and the way that Russian money weakens the West's will to resist.
Now updated with an incisive analysis of Russia's seizure of Crimea and its destabilisation of Ukraine, The New Cold War unpicks the roots of the Kremlin's ideology and exposes the West's naive belief that Putin's sinister and authoritarian regime might ever be a friend or partner.
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'An impressive polemic arguing that the West still underestimates the danger that Putin's Russia poses ... A useful appeal for vigilance' - Sunday Times
'Highly informed, crisply written and alarming ... Wise up and stick together is the concluding message in Lucas's outstanding book' - Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard
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While most of the world was lauding the stability and economic growth that Vladimir Putin's ex-KGB regime had brought to Russia, Edward Lucas was ringing alarm bells. First published in 2008 and since revised, The New Cold War remains the most insightful and informative account of Russia today. It depicts the regime's crushing of independent institutions and silencing of critics, taking Russia far away from the European mainstream. It highlights the Kremlin's use of the energy weapon in Europe, the bullying of countries in the former Soviet empire, such as Estonia, Georgia and Ukraine - and the way that Russian money weakens the West's will to resist.
Now updated with an incisive analysis of Russia's seizure of Crimea and its destabilisation of Ukraine, The New Cold War unpicks the roots of the Kremlin's ideology and exposes the West's naive belief that Putin's sinister and authoritarian regime might ever be a friend or partner.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-3219-6 (9781408832196)
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Edward Lucas is currently Deputy Editor, International Section, Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for the Economist. He has been covering central and Eastern Europe since 1986. He was based in the Baltic states from 1990 to 1994, covering the collapse of the Soviet Union and, from 1992, as the managing editor of the Baltic Independent, a weekly English-language newspaper published in Tallinn. He holds a BSc from the London School of Economics, and studied Polish at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow. The New Cold War is his first book.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Map
- Preface to the 2014 Edition
- Introduction
- 1. Putin's Rise: How the KGB Seized Power in Russia
- 2. Putin in Power: The Winners and Losers of the New Regime
- 3. Sinister Pretence: The Kremlin's Use of State Power Against Dissent
- 4. Why Money Is Russia's Greatest Strength and Our Greatest Weakness
- 5. The'New Tsarism': What Makes Russia's Leaders Tick
- 6. How Eastern Europe Sits on the Front Line of the New Cold War
- 7. Pipeline Politics: The Threat and the Reality
- 8. Sabre-rattling, or Selling Sabres? Russia's Foreign Policy Unpicked
- 9. How to Win the New Cold War: Why the West Must Believe in Itself
- Afterword
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Author
- Other Books by the Same Author
- eCopyright
