TY - BOOK ID - 46200179 TI - Putin's world: Russia against the West and with the rest PY - 2019 SN - 9781455533022 PB - New York (N.Y.) Twelve DB - UniCat KW - RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--FOREIGN RELATIONS UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46200179 AB - 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 ? This book 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. It 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. The book 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. ER -