From Cold War to hot peace an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
A former ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration describes how the progress made between the two countries was destroyed when Vladimir Putin returned to power and recounts how the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him.
| Main Author: | McFaul, Michael, 1963- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- REVOLUTION
- The first reset
- Democrats of the world, unite!
- Yeltsin's partial revolution
- Putin's thermidor
- RESET
- Change we can believe in
- Launching the reset
- Universal values
- The first (and last) Moscow Summit
- New START
- Denying Iran the bomb
- Hard accounts: Russia's neighborhood and missile defense
- Burgers and spies
- The Arab Spring, Libya, and the beginning of the end of the reset
- Becoming "His Excellency"
- REACTION
- Putin needs an enemy: America, Obama, and me
- Getting physical
- Pushback
- Twitter and the two-step
- It takes two to tango
- Chasing Russians, failing Syrians
- Dueling on human rights
- Going home
- Annexation and war in Ukraine
- The end of resets (for now)
- Epilogue: Trump and Putin.