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From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia / Michael McFaul.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xiii, 506 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780544716247
  • 0544716248
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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.
Summary: 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.Summary: "A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of Russian-American relations from the optimistic days of the end of communism in the Reagan-Gorbachev era to the confrontational era of Putin. In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join President-elect Barack Obama's national security team, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious international relationships. Obama wanted his guidance because McFaul had been studying and visiting Russia--and teaching Stanford students about it--for decades. He was there during the Gorbachev regime, he watched as Yeltsin faced down a military coup and as tumultuous reform swept the country throughout the 1990s, and he became one of America's preeminent scholars on Russia during the first Putin era. During President Obama's first term, McFaul helped craft the policy known as 'Reset,' which fostered new and unprecedented collaboration between the two countries under Dmitry Medvedev's presidency. Later, as U.S. ambassador from 2012 to 2014, he witnessed firsthand how Vladimir Putin's new rise interrupted this era of cooperation and returned Russian-American relations to a level of confrontation not known since the darkest days of the Cold War. From the outset of his ambassadorship, the Kremlin accused McFaul of being sent by Obama not to continue the Reset but instead to foment revolution against Putin's regime. This inside account blends history and memoir--from Putin's dacha to ornate Kremlin chambers to the Oval Office--to explain how Russia really works, and why America has entered into a dangerous new era of confrontation with Putin's Russia."--Dust jacket.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | From the diplomat Putin wants to interrogate--and has banned from Russia--comes a revelatory inside account of US-Russia relations across the three decades following the Cold War.

In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious and consequential international relationships.

As President Barack Obama's adviser on Russian affairs, McFaul helped craft the United States' policy known as "reset" that fostered new and unprecedented collaboration between the two countries. And then, as US ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, he had a front-row seat when this fleeting, hopeful moment crumbled with Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency.

This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of US-Russia relations from the fall of the Soviet Union to the new rise of the hostile, paranoid Russian president. From the first days of McFaul's ambassadorship, the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him, hassling him with tactics that included dispatching protesters to his front gates, slandering him on state media, and tightly surveilling him, his staff, and his family.

From Cold War to Hot Peace is an essential account of the most consequential global confrontation of our time.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

"A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of Russian-American relations from the optimistic days of the end of communism in the Reagan-Gorbachev era to the confrontational era of Putin. In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join President-elect Barack Obama's national security team, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious international relationships. Obama wanted his guidance because McFaul had been studying and visiting Russia--and teaching Stanford students about it--for decades. He was there during the Gorbachev regime, he watched as Yeltsin faced down a military coup and as tumultuous reform swept the country throughout the 1990s, and he became one of America's preeminent scholars on Russia during the first Putin era. During President Obama's first term, McFaul helped craft the policy known as 'Reset,' which fostered new and unprecedented collaboration between the two countries under Dmitry Medvedev's presidency. Later, as U.S. ambassador from 2012 to 2014, he witnessed firsthand how Vladimir Putin's new rise interrupted this era of cooperation and returned Russian-American relations to a level of confrontation not known since the darkest days of the Cold War. From the outset of his ambassadorship, the Kremlin accused McFaul of being sent by Obama not to continue the Reset but instead to foment revolution against Putin's regime. This inside account blends history and memoir--from Putin's dacha to ornate Kremlin chambers to the Oval Office--to explain how Russia really works, and why America has entered into a dangerous new era of confrontation with Putin's Russia."--Dust jacket.

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