Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War

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Marvin Kalb, former CBS Moscow bureau chief, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great has become a global tinder box, leading to a bloody civil war in Ukraine and a new Cold War between East and West. Kalb argues that the post-cold war world today hangs on the resolution of the Ukraine crisis. So long as it is treated as a problem to be resolved by Russia, on the one side, and the United States and Europe, on the other, it will remain a danger zone with global consequences.

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"Kalb, Harvard University foreign policy scholar and NBCs former Moscow bureau chief, begins this gripping account of the intertwined fates and tortuous histories of Russia and Ukraine with a killer of a drop intro: the invasion of Crimea in March 2014. The clichs are serviceable (sleepless nights, bumpy rides), the phrasing journalistic (Putin may be the worst of the current lot of possible Russian leaders, or he may be holding off someone even worse), but Kalbs willingness to foreground his point of view speaks of experience rather than ego.

-Times Higher Education

Author Bio

Marvin Kalb is a nonresident senior fellow with the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, a senior adviser at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and a Murrow Professor Emeritus at Harvard. In his long and distinguished career, he served as the chief diplomatic correspondent for CBS and NBC, the Moscow bureau chief and the host of Meet the Press. He focuses on the impact of media on public policy and politics, and is also an expert in national security, with a focus on U.S. relations with Russia, Europe and the Middle East. His most recent book is The Road to War: Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed (Brookings Institution Press, 2013).