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Indlæser... From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia (udgave 2018)af Michael McFaul (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. A good read for anyone who is interested in understanding more about what is going on in Russia and why Putin hates America and Ukraine so much. ( ) This book provides a detailed and insightful window into the past and current political and diplomatic affairs between the U.S. and Post Cold War Russia. McFaul tells the story from his very well informed (although somewhat opinionated) position as a senior government official throughout the book, and details his diplomatic accolades between him and the Russians from his time in the Obama administration during the second 'reset' era. I suppose you don't rise to the top of your profession as an academic/foreign policy expert without some level of talent for self-promotion, so I shouldn't have been terribly surprised that this book focuses almost as much on McFaul the person as McFaul the ambassador. In his defense, he is straightforward at the beginning of the book that what you are about to read is a blend of memoir and analysis, but I came away wishing I had gotten more of the latter than the former. Don't get me wrong, he's an interesting guy with an engaging narrative voice, but I really picked this book up to better understand the complicated American/Russian relationship, and I wound up feeling like this book didn't get me there. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | From the diplomat Putin wants to interrogateâ??and has banned from Russiaâ??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 No library descriptions found. |
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