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Putin Plays Judo, Not Chess

Russia is weak, but its leader makes the most of the West's

disarray and indecisiveness

by Angela Stent, via Wall Street Journal

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Vladimir Putin's Big Push Into the Middle East

Free of Soviet-era baggage, Russia is bust cultivating ties across the region, including key US allies Israel and Saudi Arabia

by Angela Stent, via Wall Street Journal

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'Putin's World' and We're Just Living In It?

The Modern Influence of Russia

Discussion and excerpt via On Point, WBUR

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Expert: Russia "Never Seems to Learn" How Things Work in U.S.

MSNBC with Ali Velshi

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Meet The Author: Angela Stent

Angela Stent is director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and a professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University. From 2004 to 2006, she served as national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. She is the author of The Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century, for which she won the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Douglas Dillon prize for the best book on the practice of American diplomacy.

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Putin’s World

Russia Against the West and with the Rest

by Angela Stent

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On Sale

Feb 26, 2019

Page Count

448 Pages

Publisher

Twelve

ISBN-13

9781455533015

Genre

Nonfiction / History / Russia & The Former Soviet Union

Description

In this revised version that includes an exclusive new chapter on the Russia-Ukraine war, renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent examines how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world—and increased Russia's status 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.