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Author McFaul, Michael, 1963- author.

Title From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia / Michael McFaul.

Published Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018].
©2018.

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Location Call No. Status
 UniM Bail  327.73047086 MCFA    DUE 05-06-24
Physical description xiii, 506 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 452-483) and index.
Contents REVOLUTION -- The First Reset -- Democrats of the World, Unite! -- Yeltsin's Incomplete Revolution -- Putin's Thermidor -- RESET -- Change We Believe In -- Launching Obama's Reset -- Universal Values -- The First (and Last) Moscow Summit -- The New START Treaty -- Denying Iran the Bomb -- Hard Accounts: Russia's Neighborhood and Missile Defense -- Burgers & Spies -- The Arab Spring, Libya, and the Beginning of the End of the Reset -- "His Excellency" -- REACTION -- Putin Needs an Enemy: America, Obama, and Me -- Getting Physical -- Push Back -- Twitter and the Two-Step -- It Takes Two to Tango -- Chasing Russians, Failing Syrians -- Dueling on Human Rights -- Going Home -- Annexation and War in Ukraine -- The End of Resets (for Now) -- Epilogue: The Trump-Putin Bromance.
Summary 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 U.S. 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 U.S.-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.
Subject McFaul, Michael, 1963-
Ambassadors -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009-2017.
ISBN 9780544716247 (hardback)

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