Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War - Couverture rigide

Weisberg, Joseph

 
9781541768628: Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War
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ISBN 10 : 1541768620 ISBN 13 : 9781541768628
Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2021

Synopsis

A former CIA officer and the creator of the hit TV series The Americans makes the case that America's policy towards Russia is failing--and we'll never fix it until we rethink our relationship.
 
Coming of age in America in the 1970s and 80s, Joe Weisberg was a Cold Warrior. After briefly studying Russian in Leningrad, he joined the CIA in 1990--just in time to watch the Soviet Union collapse.
 
But less than a decade after the first Cold War ended, a new one broke out. Russia changed in many of the ways that America hoped it might--more capitalist, more religious, more open to Western ideas. But US sanctions have crippled Russia's economy; and Russia's interventions have exacerbated political problems in America. The old paradigm--America, the free capitalist good guys, fighting Russia, the repressive communist bad guys--simply doesn't apply anymore. But we've continued to act as if it does.
 
In this bold and controversial book, Joe Weisberg interrogates these assumptions, asking hard questions about American policy and attempting to understand what Russia truly wants. Russia Upside Down makes the case against the new Cold War. It suggests that we are fighting an enemy with whom we have few if any serious conflicts of interest. It argues that we are fighting with ineffective and dangerous tools. And most of all, it aims to demonstrate that our approach is not working.
 
With our own political system in peril and continually buffeted by Russian attacks, we need a new framework, urgently. Russia Upside Down shows the stakes and begins to lay out that new plan, at a time when it is badly needed.

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À propos de l'auteur

Joseph Weisberg is an Emmy award-winning television writer and producer, best known for creating The Americans. He is the author of two previous books: the novels An Ordinary Spy and 10th Grade. He lives in New York.

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Éditeur
PublicAffairs
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1541768620
ISBN 13 
9781541768628
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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