02837nam 22004695 450 991081710470332120230810001629.00-300-21488-X0-300-22496-610.12987/9780300224962(CKB)3710000000984169(MiAaPQ)EBC4773636(DE-B1597)540487(DE-B1597)9780300224962(OCoLC)967523505(EXLCZ)99371000000098416920200229h20172017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Crimean Nexus Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations /Constantine PleshakovNew Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2017]©20171 online resource (211 pages)Includes index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Green Isle, Paradise Lost -- Part I. Terrain -- One. Tower of Babel -- Two. Protagonists -- Three. A Chain of Unfortunate Events -- Part II. Peninsula of Sun and War -- Four. History -- Five. Fetish -- Six. The Takeover -- Part III. Consequences -- Seven. From Crimea to Donbass -- Eight. #CrimeaIsOurs -- Nine. You Break It, You Run -- Notes -- IndexHow 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 in Ukraine is a clash of incompatible world views. To the U.S. 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 Tatars are Muslims who are vehemently opposed to Russian rule. Engagingly written and bracingly nonpartisan, Pleshakov's book explains the missteps made on all sides to provide a clear, even-handed account of a major international crisis.HISTORY / Modern / 21st CenturybisacshUkraineForeign relationsRussia (Federation)Russia (Federation)Foreign relationsUkraineHISTORY / Modern / 21st Century.947.7/1OSTfidDE-12Pleshakov Constantine, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut140841DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910817104703321The Crimean Nexus1540331UNINA