Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West

From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world-and its place in it-that the West can best meet the Russian challenge.



Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that Western leaders tend to think that Russia should act as a "rational" Western nation-even though Russian leaders for centuries have thought and acted based on their country's different history and traditio...