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Stent, Angela, author.

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

Unabridged.

Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2019]

©2019

1 audio media player (15.5 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.

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We all now live in a paranoid and polarized world of Putin's making, and the Russian leader, through guile and disruption, has resurrected Russia's status as a force to be reckoned with. From renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent comes a must-read dissection of present-day Russian motives on the global stage.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 US ambivalence about whether it still wants to act as a superpower? Putin's World examines the country's turbulent past, how it has influenced Putin, the Russians' understanding of their position on the global stage, and their future ambitions-and their conviction that the West has tried to deny them a seat at the table of great powers since the USSR collapsed. This book looks at Russia's key relationships, its downward spiral with the United States, Europe, and NATO; its ties to China, Japan, the Middle East; and with its neighbors, particularly the fraught relationship with Ukraine. Putin's World will help Americans understand how and why the post-Cold War era has given way to a new, more dangerous world, one in which Russia poses a challenge to the United States in every corner of the globe-and one in which Russia has become a toxic and divisive subject in US politics.

Since 1991

Ideology -- Russia (Federation)

Diplomatic relations.

Ideology.

Politics and government.

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)

Russia (Federation)

United States.

Western countries.

Audiobooks.

Audiobooks.

Stillwell, Kevin, narrator.

Playaway Digital Audio.

Findaway World, LLC.

Title from Playaway label.

Originally published by Blackstone Publishing ℗2019

Release date supplied by publisher.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

Performed by Kevin Stillwell.

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?

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