Ukraine : Zbig's grand chessboard & how the West was checkmated / Natylie Baldwin, Kermit E. Heartsong.

• Part I. The opening repertoire & beyond: The end of the Cold War ; Strange bedfellows ; NATO expansion & American empire ; Post-Soviet Russia / Natylie Baldwin -- Part II. The west checkmated: Ukraine I, Ukraine II ; Propaganda & Ukraine: American style ; Russia checkmates / Kermit E. Heartsong -- Conclusions -- Aftermath -- Index -- Appendix I. Phone transcript Nuland and Pyatt -- Appendix II. Phone transcript Paet and Ashton.

• Part I examines how the implementation of Zbig's Grand strategy moved at a feverish pace, gobbling up former Soviet satellites and converting them into NATO forward bases. The endgame for the West was to quash Russian and ostensibly Chinese independence, economic viability and, thus, their ability to project power in Eurasia. Part II speaks to the historical and geostrategic moves by the West to control the Eurasian landmass: the broken promises and treaties, the geostrategic missteps and, finally, how Grand Chessboard fundamentalism actually catalyzed Russia's re-emergence as a global power, shifted geostrategic power eastward and, proverbially, snatched defeat from the jaws of a U.S./NATO victory. 

Ämnesord

Insurgency  -- Ukraine. (LCSH)

Geopolitics  -- United States -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Geopolitics  -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

World politics  -- 21st century. (LCSH)

Civilization, Western  -- 21st century. (LCSH)

Ukraine  -- Politics and government. (LCSH)

United States  -- Foreign relations -- 1989- (LCSH)

Russia (Federation)  -- Foreign relations -- 21st century. (LCSH)

Russia (Federation)  -- Relations -- Former Soviet republics. (LCSH)

Former Soviet republics  -- Relations -- Russia (Federation) (LCSH)

Institutionsnamn

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Klassifikation

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