TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haslam,Jonathan
AU  - Haslam,Jonathan
TI  - Hubris: the American origins of Russia's war against Ukraine / 
SN  - 9780674299078
AV  - DK5417 .H37 2025
U1  - 947.706/21 23/eng/20250306
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-
KW  - Causes
KW  - Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Influence
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Ukraine
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Crimea (Ukraine)
KW  - Annexation to Russia (Federation)
N1  - "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"--Copyright page; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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?
N2  - "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"--
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