Join Columbia University's Harriman Institute for a discussion with Angela Stent (Georgetown University) about her new book, "Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest." Stent's book describes a paranoid and polarized world of Putin’s making and a leader who, through guile and disruption, has resurrected Russia’s status as a force to be reckoned with. How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Is it because of Russia’s abundant energy endowment? Is it because Putin has inappropriately politicized energy trade with Europe and neighboring post-Soviet countries? Or has Russia stepped into a vacuum created by the West's distraction with its own domestic problems and U.S. ambivalence about whether it still wants to act as a superpower? In "Putin's World," Stent examines the country's turbulent past and how it has influenced Putin; Russians' understanding of their position on the global stage and their future ambitions; and their conviction that the West has tried to deny them a seat at the table of great powers since the Soviet collapse.

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Angela Stent, director, Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, professor of government and foreign service, Georgetown University