Bobo Lo is an associate fellow with the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House (UK) and is former deputy head of mission in Australia's Moscow Embassy. He is the author of Axis of Convenience: Moscow, Beijing, and the New Geopolitics (Brookings/Chatham House, 2008).
Once again, Bobo Lo has written an illuminating book on Russia's
foreign policy. With elegance and precision, Lo has explained why
Russia, as a declining power, is still so important for
international stability, crisis management, and global issues. A
must-read for now, and certainly a classic book for the next
decade."
-Dr. Thomas Gomart, Director of the French Institute of
International Relations (IFRI), Paris
"Bobo Lo offers a trenchant analysis of the challenges and choices
that confront Russia in today's rapidly changing global
environment. He asks whether Russia is capable of jettisoning its
imperial mindset and becoming a modern nation-state capable of
interacting more effectively both with its neighbors and with the
wider world. His answer is sobering--and sometimes surprising."
-Angela Stent, Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East
European Studies (CERES), Georgetown University, and author of The
Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First
Century.
"Bobo Lo's new book is elegantly written and has a masterful grasp
of the pressures and temptations that have acted on Putin in
foreign and security policy. He puts us all in his debt."
-Robert Service, Fellow of the British Academy, and Emeritus
Fellow, St Antony's College, University of Oxford
"[Lo] adopts a commendably calm approach to a topic which attracts
plenty of polemic. At every stage he outlines Russian views of the
world fairly, and highlights Western mistakes and misapprehensions,
before proceeding to paint the full picture in precise and
sometimes scathing terms....Mr Lo’s book is the best attempt yet to
explain Russia’s unhappy relationship with the rest of the world.
It does not make comforting reading. Nor should it."
- The Economist
It is an insightful take from one of the West’s leading Russia
scholars on the different tracks Russia’s foreign policy can take,
and the results of each. As Russia continues to position itself at
the center of world affairs — from annexing Crimea to joining the
Syrian civil war — policymakers should look at the world from the
Kremlin’s point of view and assess Russian strategic thinking from
the inside out. This book does exactly that.
- New Framework
Once again, Bobo Lo has written an illuminating book on Russia's
foreign policy. With elegance and precision, Lo has explained why
Russia, as a declining power, is still so important for
international stability, crisis management, and global issues. A
must-read for now, and certainly a classic book for the next
decade."
-Dr. Thomas Gomart, Director of the French Institute of
International Relations (IFRI), Paris
"Bobo Lo offers a trenchant analysis of the challenges and choices
that confront Russia in today's rapidly changing global
environment. He asks whether Russia is capable of jettisoning its
imperial mindset and becoming a modern nation-state capable of
interacting more effectively both with its neighbors and with the
wider world. His answer is sobering-and sometimes surprising."
-Angela Stent, Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East
European Studies (CERES), Georgetown University, and author of The
Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First
Century.
"Bobo Lo's new book is elegantly written and has a masterful grasp
of the pressures and temptations that have acted on Putin in
foreign and security policy. He puts us all in his debt."
-Robert Service, Fellow of the British Academy, and Emeritus
Fellow, St Antony's College, University of Oxford
"[Lo] adopts a commendably calm approach to a topic which attracts
plenty of polemic. At every stage he outlines Russian views of the
world fairly, and highlights Western mistakes and misapprehensions,
before proceeding to paint the full picture in precise and
sometimes scathing terms....Mr Lo’s book is the best attempt yet to
explain Russia’s unhappy relationship with the rest of the world.
It does not make comforting reading. Nor should it."
- The Economist
It is an insightful take from one of the West’s leading Russia
scholars on the different tracks Russia’s foreign policy can take,
and the results of each. As Russia continues to position itself at
the center of world affairs — from annexing Crimea to joining the
Syrian civil war — policymakers should look at the world from the
Kremlin’s point of view and assess Russian strategic thinking from
the inside out. This book does exactly that.
- New Framework
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