The Crimean Nexus: Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations

by Constantine Pleshakov

Book Overview

How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War

A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in current international relations: the first occupation and annexation of one European nation's territory by another since World War II.

Pleshakov illustrates how the proxy war unfolding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030021488X
• ISBN13: 9780300214888
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.3"