Michael Mcfaul

Autocrats vs. Democrats (eBook, ePUB)

Russia, China, and What Our Cold War Past Reveals About Our Future Conflicts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From New York Times bestselling author and former ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul comes a clear-eyed look at how the rise of autocratic China and Russia are compelling some to think that we have entered a new Cold Warand why we must reject that thinking in order to prevail.

Amid the constant party divisions in Washington, DC, one issue generates stunning consensusChinawith Republicans and Democrats alike battling over which party can take the most hawkish stance toward the ascendant superpower. Indeed, far from trying to avoid a new Cold War with China, many have embraced it, finding comfort in the familiar construct, almost willing it into existence. And yet, even as politicians and intellectuals race to embrace this Cold War 2.0, many of the perils we face today are distinctly different from those of the Cold War with the Soviets. The alliance between the autocracies of China and Russia, the nature of the ideological struggle, China's economic might, the rise of the far right in the United States and in Europe, and the growing isolationism and polarization in American societytaken together these represent new challenges for the democratic world. Some elements of the Cold War have reappeared today, but many features of the current great power competition have no analogy from the past century.

For decades Michael McFaul, former ambassador to Russia and international affairs analyst for NBC News, has been one of the preeminent thinkers about American foreign policy. Now, in this provocative work, he challenges the encroaching orthodoxy on Russia and China, arguing persuasively that the way forward is not to force our current conflict into a decades-old paradigm but to learn from our Cold War past so that democracy can again emerge victorious. Examining America's layered, modern history with both Russia and China, he demonstrates that, instead of simplistically framing our competition with China and Russia as a second Cold War, we must understand the unique military, economic, and ideological challenges that come from China and Russia today, and the develop innovative policies that follow from that analysis, not just a return to the Cold War playbook.

At once a clarion call for American foreign policy and a forceful rebuttal of the creeping Washington consensus around China, Autocracy vs. Democracy demonstrates that the key to prevailing in this new era isn't simply defeating our enemies through might, but using their oppressive regimes against themto remind the world of the power and potential that our democratic freedoms make possible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063305335
• Artikelnr.: 73166265

Autorenporträt

Michael McFaul is the Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies at the Department of Political Science, and Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. He is also an international affairs analyst for NBC News. Previously, he served in the Obama administration for five years, first as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (20092012) and then as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (20122014). He has authored several books, including, most recently, the New York Times bestseller From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia.