The Crimean Nexus: Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations by Constantine Pleshakov
The Crimean Nexus: Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations by Constantine Pleshakov
A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history. Here he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flashpoints 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 in Ukraine is a clash of incompatible world views. To the United States and Europe, Ukraine is a country struggling for self-determination in the face of Russia's imperial nostalgia. To Russia, Ukraine is a "sister nation," where NATO expansionism threatens its own borders. In Crimea itself, the native Tartars are Muslims vehemently opposed to Russian rule. Engagingly written and bracingly nonpartisan, Pleshakov's book provides a clear, even-handed account of a major international crisis in which missteps were made on all sides.
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