| Title | : | Everyone Loses |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Samuel Charap & Timothy J. Colton |
| Release | : | 2018-10-09 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | World Affairs, Books, Politics & Current Events, Foreign Policy & International Relations, Political Science, History, Military History |
| Size | : | 2435887 |
| Disorder erupted in Ukraine in 2014, involving the overthrow of a sitting government, the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a violent insurrection, supported by Moscow, in the east of the country. This Adelphi book argues that the crisis has yielded a ruinous outcome, in which all the parties are worse off and international security has deteriorated. This negative-sum scenario resulted from years of zero-sum behaviour on the part of Russia and the West in post-Soviet Eurasia, which the authors rigorously analyse. The rivalry was manageable in the early period after the Cold War, only to become entrenched and bitter a decade later. The upshot has been systematic losses for Russia, the West and the countries caught in between. All the governments involved must recognise that long-standing policies aimed at achieving one-sided advantage have reached a dead end, Charap and Colton argue, and commit to finding mutually acceptable alternatives through patient negotiation. |
