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02364aam a2200349 i 4500 001 41691FE20CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230617010022 008 220921t20232023ilua e b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781642599541 020 $a 1642599549 020 $a 9781642599107 020 $a 1642599107 035 $a (OCoLC)1345215609 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d INO $d BDX $d YDX $d SILO 043 $a a-cc--- $a e-ur--- $a a-cc--- 050 4 $a E183.7 $b .A24 2023 082 04 $a 327.73 $2 23 100 1 $a Achcar, Gilbert, $e author. 245 14 $a The New Cold War : $b the United States, Russia, and China from Kosovo to Ukraine / $c Gilbert Achcar. 264 1 $a Chicago, Illinois : $b Haymarket Books, $c 2023. 300 $a xi, 356 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "Published in cooperation with The Westbourne Press in London"-Title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-349) and index. 520 $a "In the wake of the 1999 Kosovo War, Gilbert Achcar argued that the world had entered a New Cold War, characterized by a state of permanent readiness for war on the part of the United States, Russia, and China. Archcar's analysis proved remarkably prescient. In the years since, the US has positioned itself as a global hegemon, China has become an economic powerhouse allied with Russia, and Russia had launched pre-emptive wars to block NATO, culminating in Vladimir Putin's murderous invasion of Ukraine in 2002. How did we get here? As Achcar details in The New Cold War, the rivalries of the Cold War didn't disappear with the collapse of the Soviet Union; they simply mutated into new forms. Frighteningly, the New Cold War has become increasingly hot in the European theater, ratcheting up tensions in ways with which we have yet to reckon. With erudition and sobering analysis, Achcar argues that only by understanding this new landscape can we begin to imagine the contours of an alternative, more peaceful world"--Page [4] of cover. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Former communist countries. 650 0 $a World politics $y 21st century. 651 0 $a Russia $x Foreign relations. 651 0 $a China $x Foreign relations. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023721.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=41691FE20CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search