From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
Written by Michael McFaul
Narrated by L.J. Ganser
4/5
()
About this audiobook
From Cold War to Hot Peace is an essential account of the most consequential global confrontation of our time.
Michael McFaul
MICHAEL McFAUL is professor of political science, director and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He served for five years in the Obama administration, first at the White House as special assistant to the president and senior director for Russian and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council, then as U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation. Dr. McFaul is also an analyst for NBC News and a contributing columnist to the Washington Post. He has authored or coauthored several books, including Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin. Dr. McFaul was born and raised in Montana. He received his B.A. in international relations and Slavic languages and his M.A. in Soviet and East European studies from Stanford University, then completed his D. Phil. in international relations at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
Related to From Cold War to Hot Peace
Related audiobooks
Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Putin Country: A Journey Into the Real Russia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia's Remaking of the West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Madman Theory: Trump Takes On the World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell for Putin's Power Gambit--and How to Fix It Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fascism: A Warning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kompromat: My Story from Trump to Mueller and USSR to USA Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, 3rd Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of the Cold War 1985-1991 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The New Border Wars: The Conflicts That Will Define Our Future Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerica Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
International Relations For You
Who Rules the World? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/563 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA's Heart of Darkness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From Beirut to Jerusalem Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Diplomacy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Case for Israel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Breaking History: A White House Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Palestine Peace Not Apartheid: Peace Not Apartheid Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Internationalism or Extinction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for From Cold War to Hot Peace
23 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well-written detailed history of post-cold war Russia US relations, and enjoyable McFaul memoir.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I suppose you don't rise to the top of your profession as an academic/foreign policy expert without some level of talent for self-promotion, so I shouldn't have been terribly surprised that this book focuses almost as much on McFaul the person as McFaul the ambassador. In his defense, he is straightforward at the beginning of the book that what you are about to read is a blend of memoir and analysis, but I came away wishing I had gotten more of the latter than the former. Don't get me wrong, he's an interesting guy with an engaging narrative voice, but I really picked this book up to better understand the complicated American/Russian relationship, and I wound up feeling like this book didn't get me there.