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Description
You may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you.
Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia has also been waging a clandestine war against the West for decades. Hostile acts abroad, from poisoning dissidents to shooting down airliners, interfering in elections, spying, hacking and murdering, have long seemed to be the Kremlin's daily business. But what is it all for? Why does Russia consistently behave like this? And what does it achieve?
Now containing a new preface to the paperback edition, Keir Giles explains how and why Russia pushes for more power and influence wherever it can reach, far beyond Ukraine – and what it means not just for governments, but for ordinary people. Bringing together stories from the military, politics, diplomacy, espionage, cyber power, organised crime and more, Giles describes how Moscow conducts its campaigns across the globe, and how nobody is too unimportant to be caught up in them. By lifting the lid on the daily struggle going on behind the scenes to protect governments, businesses, societies and people from Russian hostile activity, Russia's War On Everybody shows how Moscow's hostile intentions for the rest of the world are far broader and more ambitious, and the ways it tries to achieve them far more pervasive and damaging, than we realise.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface to the New Paperback
Preface
1. What Makes Russia Different
2. Politics: Warfare By Other Means
3. Neither War Nor Peace
4. What the Russian Army is For
5. Nobody Is Too Unimportant
6. The Willing Accomplices
7. Business, Statecraft And Crime
8. What Comes Next
Appendix
Selected Reading
Index
Product details

Published | 25 Jan 2024 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 264 |
ISBN | 9781350452602 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Superb . . . coherent and eminently readable. . . . Giles brings home the causes and consequences of Moscow's actions to the average reader. . . . Russia's War on Everybody is an invaluable piece of a growing mosaic of renewed expertise on, and interest in, Russia. . . . It is a needed accompaniment to the more academic reflections on the Kremlin's behavior. . . . Giles is a welcome guide for readers along this path.
Diplomatic Courier
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[Giles's] analysis of the way the current government thinks and acts should be taken seriously. He has an excellent grasp of Putin's view of the world.
The Conversation
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An important book.
Martin Chilton, The Independent
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An important and timely book that covers the range of current activities of Russia's ruling regime, discussing issue areas that are only going to become more important in coming decades.
War in Ukraine: Update from Kyiv
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An essential text on understanding modern Russia's role in the world, delivering a deep dive into the many facets of the Russian mindset when dealing with the West.
Eliot Higgins, founder and director of Bellingcat
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Keir Giles has long been one of the most informed and consistent voices warning about the threat Putin's Russia poses its neighbours and the West as a whole, and this book is a combative and comprehensive assessment of the challenge... it deserves to be read and discussed widely, not least to get us thinking about what else we may face in the future.
Professor Mark Galeotti, author of 'We Need To Talk About Putin'

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