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A leading expert on US-Russian relations reveals how the United States and its European allies set the course for the war in Ukraine--and offers a sobering indictment of American foreign policy since the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 should not have taken the world by surprise. The attack escalated a war that began in 2014 with the Russian annexation of Crimea, but its origins are visible as far back as the aftermath of the Cold War, when newly independent Ukraine moved to the center of tense negotiations between Russia and the West. The United States was a leading player in this drama. In fact, Jonathan Haslam argues, it was decades of US foreign policy missteps and miscalculations, unchecked and often reinforced by European allies, that laid the groundwork for the current war. Timely and incisive, Hubris reveals the assumptions, equivocations, and grievances that have defined the West's relations with Russia since the twilight of the Soviet Union--and ensured that collision was only a matter of time.

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Jonathan Haslam is the author of numerous books on US-Russian relations and the history of the Soviet Union, including The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II, Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence, and Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall. He is professor emeritus of the history of international relations at the University of Cambridge, and was George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Jonathan Haslam is the author of numerous books on US-Russian relations and the history of the Soviet Union, including The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II, Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence, and Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall. He is professor emeritus of the history of international relations at the University of Cambridge, and was George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Jonathan Haslam is the author of numerous books on US-Russian relations and the history of the Soviet Union, including The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II, Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence, and Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall. He is professor emeritus of the history of international relations at the University of Cambridge, and was George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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