2015, ISBN: 9781784530648

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LONDON: ASSOCIATION OF THE FAMILIES OF THE BORDERLAND SETTLERS. Fine. Soft cover. 2000., ASSOCIATION OF THE FAMILIES OF THE BORDERLAND SETTLERS, 2000, 5, London: I. B. Tauris, 2015. Pres… Mehr…

LONDON: ASSOCIATION OF THE FAMILIES OF THE BORDERLAND SETTLERS. Fine. Soft cover. 2000., ASSOCIATION OF THE FAMILIES OF THE BORDERLAND SETTLERS, 2000, 5, London: I. B. Tauris, 2015. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Very good. xiv, [6]. 297, [3] pages. Note on Transliteration and Translation. Maps. List of Abbreviations. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Substantial ink markings noted. Richard Sakwa (born 1953) is a British political scientist and a former professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent, a researcher at the National Research University in Moscow, and an honorary professor in the Faculty of Political Science at Moscow State University. He has written about Russian, Central and Eastern European communist and post-communist politics. Sakwa is Emeritus Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent. He has published on Soviet, Russian and post-communist affairs, and has written and edited several books and articles on the subject. Sakwa was an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a member of Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. His book Frontline Ukraine is about the origins of the Russo-Ukrainian War. It argues that the conflicts in the post-Soviet space are caused by the expansionism of western/Atlanticist "Wider Europe" and the revanchist aggression of Eastern European states, with the USA and NATO sparking a new Cold War. The book cautions against European security becoming "hostage to a faraway country", Ukraine. Sakwa argues that it is "wrong-headed in conceptualization and dangerous in its consequences" to describe Russia as expansionist. The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian identity and of Russo-Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through the events which have forced Ukraine, a country internally divided between East and West, to choose between closer union with Europe or its historic ties with Russia. In providing the first full account of the ongoing crisis, Sakwa analyses the origins and significance of the Euromaidan Protests, examines the controversial Russian military intervention and annexation of Crimea, reveals the extent of the catastrophe of the MH17 disaster and looks at possible ways forward following the October 2014 parliamentary elections. In doing so, he explains the origins, developments and global significance of the internal and external battle for Ukraine. With all eyes focused on the region, Sakwa unravels the myths and misunderstandings of the situation, providing an essential and highly readable account of the struggle for Europe's contested borderlands., I. B. Tauris, 2015, 2.75<