Russian-American Relations in the Post-Cold War World

by James W. Peterson

Book Overview

Why did the Russian take-over of Crimea come as a surprise to so many observers in the academic, practitioner and global-citizen arenas? The answer presented in this textbook is a complex one, rooted in late-Cold War dualities but also in the variegated policy patterns of the two powers after 1991.

The 2014 crisis was provoked by conflicting perspectives over the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, the expansion of NATO to include former communist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526105780
• ISBN13: 9781526105783
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"