From Cold War To Hot Peace

An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia

Michael McFaul

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Jahr: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780544716254
• Thema: Politics & International Relations
• Thema: Diplomacy & Treaties

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | From the diplomat Putin wants to interrogate—and has banned from Russia—comes a revelatory inside account of US-Russia relations across the three decades following the Cold War.

In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious and consequential international relationships.

As President Barack Obama's adviser on Russian affairs, McFaul helped craft the United States' policy known as "reset" that fostered new and unprecedented collaboration between the two countries. And then, as US ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, he had a front-row seat when this fleeting, hopeful moment crumbled with Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency.

This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of US-Russia relations from the fall of the Soviet Union to the new rise of the hostile, paranoid Russian president. From the first days of McFaul's ambassadorship, the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him, hassling him with tactics that included dispatching protesters to his front gates, slandering him on state media, and tightly surveilling him, his staff, and his family.

From Cold War to Hot Peace is an essential account of the most consequential global confrontation of our time.

Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Abkhazia, 74, 77, 97, 107, 184, 402

Action Group for Syria, 339, 340–41

Addington, Dick, 368

adoption, 290, 305, 368–71, 382, 445

Afanasiev, Yuri, 25

Afghanistan

Central Asian relationships and, 185, 186

Medvedev and Obama and, 102, 106, 123, 124

Moscow summit and, 127, 130

Putin and Taliban in, 64–65, 446

Reagan and, 331

Soviet intervention in, 19, 222, 417

U.S. intervention in, 400

U.S.-Russia cooperation on, 87–88, 90, 92, 123, 200, 305, 317

AfPak strategy, 123

Africa, 7, 8, 9, 21. See also South Africa

Agha-Soltan, Neda, 162

Agrarian Party of Russia (APR), 34, 35

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 160, 161

Aksiuchits, Viktor, 28

Albright, Madeleine, 155

Alexeyeva, Lyudmila, 276, 289

Ali, Ben, 221

Alksnis, Viktor, 15

al-Nusra, 344

al-Qaeda, viii, 88, 102, 106, 123, 331, 372–73

alt-right publications, 436

Alyokhina, Maria, 302

American Corners, 312–13, 382

American Embassy in Moscow, 264–66, 282–83, 287, 309, 370–71, 444–45

The Americans (TV series), 201

The Anatomy of Protest (NTV series), 251

Annan, Kofi, 338–39, 340–41, 345

anti-Americanism, 280–97

civil society support and, 287–90

countering misinformation, 292–93, 382

cultural events and, 294–95

democracy and human rights abuses and, 290–92

human rights policies in U.S. and, 293–94

Lavrov and, 446–47

need to push back against, 281–84

positive domestic developments and...