Hubris - Jonathan Haslam

Hubris

The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine

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Buch | Hardcover
368 Seiten
2025
The Belknap Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-29907-8 (ISBN)
29,75 inkl. MwSt
Jonathan Haslam reveals how US foreign policy from Bush Sr. to Biden helped set the course for the Russo-Ukrainian War. After the Cold War, Ukraine moved to the center of fraught negotiations between Russia and the West—especially the US, eager to extend its global hegemony and neglectful of Russian ire over the shifting balance of power in Europe.
A leading expert on US-Russian relations reveals how the United States and its European allies set the course for the war in Ukraine—and offers a sobering indictment of American foreign policy since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 should not have taken the world by surprise. The attack escalated a war that began in 2014 with the Russian annexation of Crimea, but its origins are visible as far back as the aftermath of the Cold War, when newly independent Ukraine moved to the center of tense negotiations between Russia and the West. The United States was a leading player in this drama. In fact, Jonathan Haslam argues, it was decades of US foreign policy missteps and miscalculations, unchecked and often reinforced by European allies, that laid the groundwork for the current war.

Isolated, impoverished, and relegated to a second-order power on the world stage, Russia grew increasingly resentful of Western triumphalism in the wake of the Cold War. The United States further provoked Russian ire with a campaign to expand NATO into Eastern Europe—especially Ukraine, the most geopolitically important of the former Soviet republics. Determined to extend its global dominance, the United States repeatedly ignored signs that antagonizing Russia would bring consequences. Meanwhile, convinced that Ukraine was passing into the Western sphere of influence, Putin prepared to shift the European balance of power in Russia’s favor.

Timely and incisive, Hubris reveals the assumptions, equivocations, and grievances that have defined the West’s relations with Russia since the twilight of the Soviet Union—and ensured that collision was only a matter of time.

Jonathan Haslam is the author of numerous books on US-Russian relations and the history of the Soviet Union, including The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II, Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence, and Russia’s Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall. He is Professor Emeritus of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, and was George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.1.2025
Zusatzinfo 3 maps
Verlagsort Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 685 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-674-29907-8 / 0674299078
ISBN-13 978-0-674-29907-8 / 9780674299078
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