Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine

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 2022 invasion of Ukraine should not have been a surprise. The attack escalated a war that began in 2014 with Moscow’s annexation of Crimea, but its origins lie in the aftermath of the Cold War, when newly independent Ukraine moved to the center of tense nego...