The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West

When departing president Boris Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin as his replacement in 1999, no one suspected that, a decade and two presidential terms later, this unassuming former KGB operative would still be the de facto leader of Russia. Edward Lucas, Eastern European correspondent for The Economist, reveals the aggressive policies guiding the Kremlin today, including: abuses of human and democratic rights, the reasons for instigating conflict in Georgia, the larger aims of the standoff over gas delivery to Eastern and Central Europe, and the true worth of Russia's economy. Hard-hitting and powerful, The New Cold War is the realistic view of Russia that the West can no longer ignore.