"The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West," with Edward Lucas, The Economist.
Edward Lucas will discuss his new book, The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West.
The past few months have seen Vladimir Putin intensify his hold on Russia through his party%u2019s sweeping win in rigged parliamentary elections in December, and the choice of a nominal successor, Dmitry Medvedev. Now, as Russia%u2019s strongman plans to take on a new role as Russia%u2019s Prime Minister, THE NEW COLD WAR: Putin%u2019s Russia and the Threat to the West [Palgrave Macmillan, Feb 19th, Hardcover, 0-230-60612-1] by Edward Lucas will be the go-to book for the multitude of questions and issues that are sure to arise in the coming months.
Lucas has covered Eastern Europe for The Economist for over twenty years, and his trusted insight is now displayed in this, his first book. THE NEW COLD WAR takes a hard-hitting look at the reality of Russia today, and the menacing ways in which the country is reverting back to Soviet era behavior under Putin%u2019s influence.
Edward Lucas is the Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist. He has been covering the region for more than 20 years, witnessing the final years of the last Cold War, the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the Soviet empire, Boris Yeltsin's downfall and Vladimir Putin's rise to power. From 1992 to 1994, he was the managing editor of The Baltic Independent, a weekly English-language newspaper published in Tallinn. He holds a BSc from the London School of Economics, and studied Polish at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow. The New Cold War is his first book.
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