| Description |
1 online resource (185 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
Maps -- Preface / Katrina vanden Heuvel -- Introduction: Collision course -- 1. How 2014 set the stage for war -- 2. The success and failure of the Minsk II Peace Plan -- 3. The Russian invasion of Ukraine -- 4. NATO: Myth vs. reality -- 5. Information warfare -- 6. The consequences of western sanctions on Russia -- 7. Flirting with nuclear war -- Conclusion: How on earth will this end? |
| Summary |
"Russia's brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible and highly informative primer, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies insist the picture is more complicated. Skilfully bringing together the historical record and current analysis, War in Ukraine looks at the events leading up to the conflict, surveys the different parties involved, and weighs the risks of escalation and opportunities for peace. For anyone who wants to get beneath the heavily propagandized media coverage to an understanding of a war with consequences that could prove cataclysmic, reading this timely book will be an urgent necessity."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of CODEPINK and the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. In 2012, she was awarded the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation's Peace Prize; she is also recipient of the 2014 Gandhi Peace Award and the 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Nicolas J.S. Davies is the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq. He has written extensively for Huffington Post, Alternet, Consortium News, Common Dreams, Salon, The Progressive, and Foreign Policy in Focus |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-
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Diplomatic relations
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| SUBJECT |
Ukraine -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation)
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Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- Ukraine
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| Subject |
Russia (Federation)
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Ukraine
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davies, Nicolas J. S., author
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Vanden Heuvel, Katrina, writer of preface
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| ISBN |
9781682193730 |
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168219373X |
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