Hubris : the American origins of Russia's war against Ukraine / Jonathan Haslam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haslam, Jonathan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014---Causes.

Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-.

Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022--Causes.

Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022.

Cold War--Influence.

Cold War.

United States--Foreign relations--Ukraine.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Russia (Federation).

Ukraine--Foreign relations--United States.

Ukraine.

Ukraine--Foreign relations--Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations--United States.

Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations--Ukraine.

Crimea (Ukraine)--Annexation to Russia (Federation).

Crimea (Ukraine).

Physical Description:

xviii, 350 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Harvard University Press edition.

Other Title:

American origins of Russia's war against Ukraine

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University press, 2025.

Summary:

"A leading expert on US-Russian relations reveals how the United States and its European allies set the course for the war in Ukraine--and offers a sobering indictment of American foreign policy since the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 should not have taken the world by surprise. The attack escalated a war that began in 2014 with the Russian annexation of Crimea, but its origins are visible as far back as the aftermath of the Cold War, when newly independent Ukraine moved to the center of tense negotiations between Russia and the West. The United States was a leading player in this drama. In fact, Jonathan Haslam argues, it was decades of US foreign policy missteps and miscalculations, unchecked and often reinforced by European allies, that laid the groundwork for the current war. Isolated, impoverished, and relegated to a second-order power on the world stage, Russia grew increasingly resentful of Western triumphalism in the wake of the Cold War. The United States further provoked Russian ire with a campaign to expand NATO into Eastern Europe--especially Ukraine, the most geopolitically important of the former Soviet republics. Determined to extend its global dominance, the United States repeatedly ignored signs that antagonizing Russia would bring consequences. Meanwhile, convinced that Ukraine was passing into the Western sphere of influence, Putin prepared to shift the European balance of power in Russia's favor."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Pax Americana

Russia elbowed out

Western Europe caves in

NATO goes to war

Face to face with Putin

Part II. Regime change

Obama in office

Maidan

The road to Damascus

Trump fails

Paying the gas bill

Conclusion: The war of the Russian Succession?

Notes:

"First published in the United Kingdom in 2024 as Hubris: The Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine by Head of Zeus, part of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-289) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Schaffer fund bookplate.

ISBN:

0674299078

9780674299078

OCLC:

1453070372