Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Cold War to cold peace; 2. Order without hegemony; 3. Russian grievances; 4. Resistance and neo-revisionism; 5. Europe, Eurasia and heartland conflicts; 6. After the cold peace; 7. Remilitarisation and the new apocalypse; 8. America and global leadership; 9. The EU, Europe and Russia; 10. Towards a post-western world; 11. The new globalism and the politics of resistance; Conclusion.

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This book examines how Putin's Russia emerged as one of the great powers, demanding recognition of its status in international politics.

About the Author

Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent and an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. He graduated in History from the London School of Economics and took a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham. He has published widely on Soviet, Russian and post-communist affairs. Recent books include Russian Politics and Society (2008), Putin: Russia's Choice (2008), The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism, and the Medvedev Succession (Cambridge, 2011), Putin and the Oligarch: The Khodorkovsky - Yukos Affair (2014) and Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia (2014). His latest book is Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands (2016).

Reviews

'A leading authority on Russia and Europe, Richard Sakwa articulates the much needed pluralist perspective on their relations to replace the outdated Atlantic outlook.' Andrei P. Tsygankov, San Francisco State University

'In this theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich analysis, Richard Sakwa both explains the course of development of Russia-West relations after the end of the cold war and points to what could be done to escape the dead end into which we have blundered. If you are going to read only one book on post-cold war international politics, read this superb study.' Graeme Gill, University of Sydney