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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 allies of Russia as well as three of its former republics, the American decision to invade Iraq in 2003, and the Russian move to invade Georgia in 2008. This book uses a number of key theories in political science to create a framework for analysis and to outline policy options for the future. It is vital that the attentive public confront the questions raised in these pages in order to control the reflexive and knee-jerk reactions to all points of conflict that emerge on a regular basis between America and Russia.

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This insider's account - uniquely combining history, politics and intimate personal knowledge of the corridors of power - takes us from Putin's dacha to ornate Kremlin chambers and the Oval Office, to explain how Russia really works, and why the world has entered a dangerous new era of confrontation.

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USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--FOREIGN RELATIONS--USA --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--ECONOMIC POLICY

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DEMOCRATIZATION--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) --- USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--FOREIGN RELATIONS--USA --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

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Zbigniew Brzezinski's 'The Grand Chessboard : American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives' has long been the operative canon for State Department Hawks, Neoconservatives and Russophobes. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the implementation of Zbig's Grand strategy has moved at a feverish pace, gobbling up former Soviet satellites and then converting them into NATO forward bases. The endgame for the West, via these moves, has always been to quash Russian and ostensibly Chinese independence, economic viability and, thus, their ability to project power in Eurasia. This book speaks to the historical and geostrategic moves by the West to control the Eurasian landmass : the broken promises and treaties, the geostrategic missteps and, finally, how Grand Chessboard fundamentalism actually catalyzed Russia's re-emergence as a global power, shifted geostrategic power eastward and, proverbially, snatched defeat from the jaws of a U.S./NATO victory.

USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--FOREIGN RELATIONS--USA --- UKRAINE CONFLICT, 2014 --- -CRIMEA (UKRAINE)--ANNEXATION TO RUSSIA