Russia and the New World Disorder

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A Brookings Institution Press and Chatham House publication

The Russian annexation of Crimea was one of the great strategic shocks of the past twenty-five years. For many in the West, Moscow's actions in early 2014 marked t...

Review Quotes: Once again, Bobo Lo has written an illuminating book on Russia's foreign policy. With elegance and precision, Lo has explained why Russia, as a declining power, is still so important for international stability, crisis management, and global issues. A must-read for now, and certainly a classic book for the next decade.
--Dr. Thomas Gomart, Director of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), Paris

Bobo Lo offers a trenchant analysis of the challenges and choices that confront Russia in today's rapidly changing global environment. He asks whether Russia is capable of jettisoning its imperial mindset and becoming a modern nation-state capable of interacting more effectively both with its neighbors and with the wider world. His answer is sobering--and sometimes surprising.
--Angela Stent, Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CERES), Georgetown University, and author of The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century

Bobo Lo's new book is elegantly written and has a masterful grasp of the pressures and temptations that have acted on Putin in foreign and security policy. He puts us all in his debt.
--Robert Service, Fellow of the British Academy, and Emeritus Fellow, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford