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Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West
Palgrave Macmillan
March 2008
On Sale: February 19, 2008
272 pages
ISBN: 0230606121
EAN: 9780230606128
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
In late 1999 when Vladimir Putin was named Prime Minister,
Russia was a budding democracy. Multiple parties campaigned
for seats in the Duma, the nation’s parliament. The media
criticized the government freely. Eight years later as Putin
completes his second term as president of Russia and
announces his bid for prime minister, the country is under a
repressive regime. Human rights abuses are widespread. The
Kremlin is openly hostile to the West. Yet the United States
and Europe have been slow to confront the new reality, in
effect, helping Russia win what experts are now calling the
New Cold War.
Edward Lucas, former Moscow Bureau
Chief for The Economist, offers a harrowing portrait
from inside Russia as well as a sobering political
assessment of what the New Cold War will mean for the world.
In this big, hard hitting and urgently needed book, he shows
how
* Russia is pursuing global energy markets
*
Neighboring nations are being coerced back into the former
Soviet orbit
* Journalists and dissidents are being
silenced
* Foreign investments and private enterprises
are routinely defrauded
* Putin is laying the groundwork
for controlling industry and planning his new role as prime
minister
Drawing on new and hitherto reported
material, The New Cold War brilliantly anticipates
what is in store for the new Russia and what the world
should be doing.
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