TY - BOOK ID - 40851659 TI - Moscow rules : what drives Russia to confront the West? PY - 2019 SN - 9780815735748 081573574X 9780815735755 PB - Washington,DC Brookings Institution Press DB - UniCat KW - Internationale politiek. Buitenlandse politiek KW - Polemologie KW - West-Europa KW - Rusland KW - Verenigde Staten van Amerika KW - RUSSIA (FEDERATON)--FOREIGN RELATIONS KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - Polemology KW - Western Europe KW - Russia KW - United States KW - #SBIB:327H13 KW - #SBIB:328H262 KW - Buitenlandse politiek: U.S.S.R. / GOS / Russische Federatie KW - Instellingen en beleid: Rusland en het GOS KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:40851659 AB - From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world–and its place in it–that the West can best meet the Russian challenge.Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that Western leaders tend to think that Russia should act as a "rational" Western nation–even though Russian leaders for centuries have thought and acted based on their country's much different history and traditions. Russia, through Western eyes, is unpredictable and irrational, when in fact its leaders from the czars to Putin almost always act in their own very predictable and rational ways. For Western leaders to try to engage with Russia without attempting to understand how Russians look at the world is a recipe for repeated disappointment and frequent crises. (provided by publisher) ER -