The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (702 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812968468 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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That things turned out reasonably well may seem amazing, given some of the incidents Talbott relates. His book offers an instructive, lively view of international diplomacy, personal politics, and the odd turns involved in changing the world. The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s was fraught with turmoil and political peril. --Gregory McNamee. But, writes fellow Rhodes Scholar Talbott, his adviser on Russian affairs, "It became apparent that being president meant doing the heavy lifting in
The challenge of helping to steer post-Soviet Russia-with its thousands of nuclear weapons and seething ethnic tensions-between the Scylla of a communist restoration and the Charybdis of anarchy fell to the former governor of a poor, landlocked Southern state who had won national election by focusing on domestic issues. It also sheds new light on Vladimir Putin, as well as the altered landscape after September 11, 2001.The Russia Hand is the first great memoir about war and peace in the post-cold war world.From the Hardcover edition.. To cheer the fall of a bankrupt totalitarian regime is one thing; to build on its ruins a stable democratic state is quite another. The Russia Hand is without question among the most candid, intimate and illuminating foreign-policy memoirs ever written in the long history of such books. No one co
Subtle Diplomacy John Van Wagner The devil is in the details, but the "angels" call the shots (and in this story the "angels" are no angels). This is the short version of Strobe Talbott's exhaustive, intimate memoir of the transformation of US-Russian relations during the tumultuous 1990s. Bereft of the old adversarial structures of the cold war, and lacking any type of transitional plan, the diplomatic establishments of Washington and Moscow were compelled to feel their way through a stubborn morass of suspicion and ignorance and emerge with something like a policy of institutionalized cooperation.By this account. DJ_"Interesting - Informative" according to DJ_200Interesting - Informative DJ_2004 I am only seventeen and I have a Russian significant other. I didn't know anything about the country itself and wanted to learn more. This book was certainly a behind-the-scenes look at the U.S. and the new Russian Federation. It was not boring. You always were waiting for something to happen, whether it be bad or good. The writer had an incredibly positive perspective on Russia, which was good to see. They did leave out that Russia is still known for its mafia corruption and violence. But I didn't care about the Russian mafia - I was only interested in the future of Russia and wha. . I am only seventeen and I have a Russian significant other. I didn't know anything about the country itself and wanted to learn more. This book was certainly a behind-the-scenes look at the U.S. and the new Russian Federation. It was not boring. You always were waiting for something to happen, whether it be bad or good. The writer had an incredibly positive perspective on Russia, which was good to see. They did leave out that Russia is still known for its mafia corruption and violence. But I didn't care about the Russian mafia - I was only interested in the future of Russia and wha. 00Interesting - Informative DJ_2004 I am only seventeen and I have a Russian significant other. I didn't know anything about the country itself and wanted to learn more. This book was certainly a behind-the-scenes look at the U.S. and the new Russian Federation. It was not boring. You always were waiting for something to happen, whether it be bad or good. The writer had an incredibly positive perspective on Russia, which was good to see. They did leave out that Russia is still known for its mafia corruption and violence. But I didn't care about the Russian mafia - I was only interested in the future of Russia and wha. said Interesting - Informative. I am only seventeen and I have a Russian significant other. I didn't know anything about the country itself and wanted to learn more. This book was certainly a behind-the-scenes look at the U.S. and the new Russian Federation. It was not boring. You always were waiting for something to happen, whether it be bad or good. The writer had an incredibly positive perspective on Russia, which was good to see. They did leave out that Russia is still known for its mafia corruption and violence. But I didn't care about the Russian mafia - I was only interested in the future of Russia and wha. "Essential reading as to how we got to this point with the Russians" according to Arthur Amchan. This book is dated, which is exactly why it is worth reading--particularly for a "Russia Hand Wanna-Be" like myself. What is evident is that our current problems with Russia predate Vladimir Putin and are the result in large part of the belief of many Russians that the United States has not accorded them the respect to which they are due.Talbott discusses and defends the expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe. I am not convinced. He mentions that many people, including George Kennan, the architect of the containment of the Soviet Union, thought NATO expansion was a horrible idea. Ta