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Buy this book on-line LUCAS,EDWARD: : THE NEW COLD WAR: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West.[Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.BLOOMSBURY,2008. ISBN 97807447595670.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 10-1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's blank inked inscrptn+signature: 'Best wishes Edward Lucas' to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,illustrated dw/dj,with blue+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,a blue+white striped headband and immaculate b/w map illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-ixpp+2-342pp [paginated] includes 2 b/w maps,author's introduction,9 chapters,notes, acknowledgements and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title page, SIGNED title page,dedication, and contents list/table.
In the 1990s,Russia was the sick man of Europe,dependent on Western handouts.But now the country is run by an authoritarian ex-KGB regime with the cash to put its ideas into practice.Under Vladimir Putin's autocratic rule,Russia has used its soaring oil and gas revenues to pay off its debts and gain influence in the West,buying off criticism both at home and abroad.Foreign firms are squeezed out of strategic industries in Russia,while the subsidiaries of 'Kremlin Inc' muscle their way into Western markets. Putin's Russia silences its critics and bullies its neighbours. The murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and emigre Aleksander Litvinenko have sent a grim warning to others who might challenge the regime.The Kremlin uses energy blockades,trade sanctions,cyber attacks,riots and Soviet-style disinformation against countries of the former Soviet empire that try to resist its growing influence.
Russia has threatened to target its
nuclear missiles on America's allies in Eastern Europe and resumed regular intrusions into NATO airspace.Kremlin companies are stitching up Europe's gas market, striking separate deals with individual countries.Russia is not only playing divide and rule in Europe,but also sidelining America, its most formidable opponent in the last Cold War.
As the Kremlin bares its teeth,
'The New Cold War' explains both the tactics used and the West's weaknesses: why we are perilously close to defeat - and how we can still win.
Edward Lucas was educated at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.He is the Central and East European correspondent of the
'Economist' and has been covering the region since 1986,including postings in Moscow,Berlin,Prague,
Vienna and the Baltic states.
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