Putin's Virtual War: Russias Subversion and Conversion of America, Europe and the World Beyond - Rilegato

Nester, William

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ISBN 10: 1526771187 ISBN 13: 9781526771186

Casa editrice: Frontline Books, 2019

Riassunto

With his elfin poker face, receding short golden hair, diminutive but muscular body, and stiff clipped gait, Vladimir Putin is among the worlds most recognizable leaders. He has tightly ruled Russia since 31 December 1999, and will firmly assert power from the Kremlin for the foreseeable future. Many fear and loath him for his brutality, for ordering opponents imprisoned on trumped up charges and even murdered. Yet most Russians adore him for rebuilding the economy, state authority, and national pride.What drives Putin? Much more than greed for money and power animates him. He is a zealous nationalist deadset to make Russia great again. He mourns the Soviet Unions breakup as the greatest political catastrophe of the twentieth century. Putins nostalgia is understandable. The Russian empire peaked in territory, population, military power, and prestige when it was called the Soviet Union.Putin has mastered the art of power. Depending on what is at stake, that involves the deft wielding of appropriate or smart ingredients of hard physical power like armored divisions, multinational corporations, and assassins, and soft psychological power like diplomats, honey-traps, cyber-trolls, and fake news factories to defeat threats and seize opportunities. Russian hackers penetrated the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clintons campaign organization, extracted tens of thousands of potentially embarrassing emails, and posted them on WikiLeaks.As the Kremlins latest ruler, Putin, like most of his predecessors, is as realistic as he is ruthless. He knows the limits of Russian hard and soft power while constantly trying to expand them. He is doing whatever he can to advance Russian national interests as he interprets them. In Putins mind, Russia can rise only as far as the West can fall. And on multiple fronts he is methodically advancing to those ends. Putins Virtual War reveals just how and why he does so, and the dire consequences for America, Europe, and the world beyond.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Dr WILLIAM NESTER, a Professor at the Department of Government and Politics, St. John's University, New York, is the author of thirty-seven books on history and politics. His book George Rogers Clark: I Glory in War won the Army Historical Foundation's best biography award for 2013, and Titan: The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon, won the New York Military Affairs Symposium's 2016 Arthur Goodzett Book Award.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Frontline Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1526771187
• ISBN 13: 9781526771186
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 354
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile