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By Robert Legvold

The 2014 predicament in Ukraine despatched a tottering U.S.-Russian dating over a cliff - a deadly descent into deep distrust, severed ties, and capability war of words similar to the chilly battle period.

In this incisive new research, best specialist on Soviet and Russian international coverage, Robert Legvold, explores intimately this qualitatively new part in a courting that has alternated among desire and unhappiness for far of the previous twenty years. Tracing the lengthy and tortured direction resulting in this severe juncture, he contends that the hot deterioration of Russia-U.S. relatives merits to be understood as a go back to chilly conflict with nice and lasting outcomes. In drawing out the commonalities among the unique chilly struggle and the present disagreement, Return to chilly War brings a clean standpoint to what's taking place among the 2 international locations, its broader value past the instant problems with the day, and the way political leaders in either international locations may alter their methods so as, because the writer urges, to make this new chilly warfare "as brief and shallow as possible."

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