The New Russian Foreign Policy

The New Russian Foreign Policy
Author: Michael Mandelbaum
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780876092132

This book surveys Russia's relations with the world since 1992 and assesses the future prospect for the foreign policy of Europe's largest country. Together these essays offer an authoritative summary and assessment of Russia's relations with its neighbors and with the rest of the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Mission Failure

Mission Failure
Author: Michael Mandelbaum
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190469471

Mission Failure argues that, in the past 25 years, the U.S. military has turned to missions that are largely humanitarian and socio-political - and that this ideologically-driven foreign policy generally leads to failure.

U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War

U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War
Author: Randall B. Ripley
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2010-11-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0822974924

The cold war came to a grinding halt during the astounding developments of 1989-1991. The Berlin Wall fell, Eastern European countries freed themselves from Soviet domination, and the Soviet Union itself disintegrated after witnessing a failed coup presumably aimed at restoring a communist dictatorship. Suddenly the "evil empire" was no more, and U.S. foreign policy was forever changed. This volume explores the revisions to a variety of bureaucratic institutions and policy areas in the wake of these political upheavals.

Russian Foreign Policy

Russian Foreign Policy
Author: Jeffrey Mankoff
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1442208244

Introduction: the guns of August -- Contours of Russian foreign policy -- Bulldogs fighting under the rug: the making of Russian foreign policy -- Resetting expectations: Russia and the United States -- Europe: between integration and confrontation -- Rising China and Russia's Asian vector -- Playing with home field advantage? Russia and its post-Soviet neighbors -- Conclusion: dealing with Russia's foreign policy reawakening.

The Soviet Union and Europe in the Cold War, 1943-53

The Soviet Union and Europe in the Cold War, 1943-53
Author: Francesca Gori
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1997-08-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1349251062

After the Cold War, its history must be reassessed as the opening of Soviet archives allows a much fuller understanding of the Russian dimension. These essays on the classic period of the Cold War (1945-53) use Soviet and Western sources to shed new light on Stalin's aims, objectives and actions; on Moscow's relations with both the Soviet Bloc and the West European Communist Parties; and on the diplomatic relations of Britain, France and Italy with the USSR. The contributors are prominent European, Russian and American specialists.

The Soviet Myth of World War II

The Soviet Myth of World War II
Author: Jonathan Brunstedt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108498752

Provides a bold new interpretation of the origins and development of World War II's remembrance in the USSR.

Turkey and the Soviet Union During World War II

Turkey and the Soviet Union During World War II
Author: Onur Isci
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019-11-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1788317815

Based on newly accessible Turkish archival documents, Onur Isci's study details the deterioration of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II. Turkish-Russian relations have a long history of conflict. Under Ataturk relations improved – he was a master 'balancer' of the great powers. During the Second World War, however, relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union plunged to several degrees below zero, as Ottoman-era Russophobia began to take hold in Turkish elite circles. For the Russians, hostility was based on long-term apathy stemming from the enormous German investment in the Ottoman Empire; for the Turks, on the fear of Russian territorial ambitions. This book offers a new interpretation of how Russian foreign policy drove Turkey into a peculiar neutrality in the Second World War, and eventually into NATO. Onur Isci argues that this was a great reversal of Ataturk-era policies, and that it was the burden of history, not realpolitik, that caused the move to the west during the Second World War.

Stalin and the Fate of Europe

Stalin and the Fate of Europe
Author: Norman M. Naimark
Publisher: Belknap Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 067423877X

Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Award Winner of the U.S.–Russia Relations Book Prize A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year The Cold War division of Europe was not inevitable—the acclaimed author of Stalin’s Genocides shows how postwar Europeans fought to determine their own destinies. Was the division of Europe after World War II inevitable? In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order in Europe, Norman Naimark suggests that Joseph Stalin was far more open to a settlement on the continent than we have thought. Through revealing case studies from Poland and Yugoslavia to Denmark and Albania, Naimark recasts the early Cold War by focusing on Europeans’ fight to determine their future. As nations devastated by war began rebuilding, Soviet intentions loomed large. Stalin’s armies controlled most of the eastern half of the continent, and in France and Italy, communist parties were serious political forces. Yet Naimark reveals a surprisingly flexible Stalin, who initially had no intention of dividing Europe. During a window of opportunity from 1945 to 1948, leaders across the political spectrum, including Juho Kusti Paasikivi of Finland, Wladyslaw Gomulka of Poland, and Karl Renner of Austria, pushed back against outside pressures. For some, this meant struggling against Soviet dominance. For others, it meant enlisting the Americans to support their aims. The first frost of Cold War could be felt in the tense patrolling of zones of occupation in Germany, but not until 1948, with the coup in Czechoslovakia and the Berlin Blockade, did the familiar polarization set in. The split did not become irreversible until the formal division of Germany and establishment of NATO in 1949. In illuminating how European leaders deftly managed national interests in the face of dominating powers, Stalin and the Fate of Europe reveals the real potential of an alternative trajectory for the continent.