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Vladimir Putin has a master plan to destroy Europe, divide NATO,
reclaim Russian influence in the world, and most of all to
marginalize the United States and the West in order to achieve
regional hegemony and global power. Putin's unified strategy and
vision for Europe has not been thoroughly discussed or articulated
in any meaningful way until now. Putin's Master Plan is the first
comprehensive attempt to systematically explain Putin's global
strategy, which could inevitably and inexorably lead to the breakup
of the NATO alliance, and potentially to war with the West.
Currently, the West has no strategy, no plan, and no tactics to
confront Putin's master plan other than imposing limited economic
sanctions, which have done little to deter Putin's aggression--and
may well have encouraged and facilitated it. The viewpoint taken
here is not just alarmism, but an accurate and, for the first time,
clear and sober portrayal of a frightening situation that, more and
more, serious observers of European and Russian politics are openly
recognizing and acknowledging. Putin's Master Plan makes the case
that it is essential to wake up to Putin's strategy to destroy
Europe, divide NATO, and build a new empire in the former Soviet
Union. Russia has demonstrated an extraordinary level of
aggression, most boldly in its outright invasions of Georgia and
Ukraine. American weakness and a divided Europe have left Russia's
terrified neighbors without an alternative to Russian domination,
and even once-stalwart American allies such as the Republic of
Georgia are on the brink of becoming part of Putin's new empire in
Europe. Putin has made it clear that he sees NATO expansion as a
fundamental threat to Russian nationhood, and he is systematically
challenging the NATO Alliance as well as the United States. So far,
he is winning.
America in the Age of Trump is a bracing, essential look at the
failure of a great nation to meet the needs of its people and the
challenges of the age-and the resulting collapse of public trust in
government, as well as a pervasive crisis of national values, from
broken families to a loss of faith in the American idea itself.
This crisis of values occurs just as the country faces an
unprecedented array of fiscal, economic, social, and
national-security challenges: out-of-control federal spending,
frighteningly large deficits, massive gaps of income and
opportunity, cultural division, and a dangerous world in which
American power seems increasingly incidental. In America in the Age
of Trump, Douglas E. Schoen and Jessica Tarlov offer a definitive
and unique assessment of a nation in turmoil, looking beneath
well-known problems to identify underlying yet poorly understood
causes. Readers will confront the crises, one by one: of trust,
values, and governance; of education, economic opportunity, and
fiscal solvency; of national security, domestic tranquility, and
race relations. America in the Age of Trump gathers in one place a
clear and comprehensive evaluation of the fundamental issues
confronting the American future while offering bold, fresh
approaches to meeting these challenges. Other books have described
the specter of American decline, but none has been so comprehensive
in its diagnosis or forward-looking-and non-ideological-in its
remedies, explaining how we might yet overcome national self-doubt
to reclaim our traditional optimism, reassert our place in the
world, and secure a prosperous future for our citizens.
The United States is a nation in crisis. While Washington's ability
to address our most pressing challenges has been rendered nearly
impotent by ongoing partisan warfare, we face an array of
foreign-policy crises for which we seem increasingly unprepared.
Among these, none is more formidable than the unprecedented
partnership developing between Russia and China, suspicious
neighbors for centuries and fellow Communist antagonists during the
Cold War. The two longtime foes have drawn increasingly close
together because of a confluence of geostrategic, political, and
economic interests--all of which have a common theme of
diminishing, subverting, or displacing American power. While
America's influence around the world recedes--in its military and
diplomatic power, in its political leverage, in its economic might,
and, perhaps most dangerously, in the power and appeal of its
ideas--Russia and China have seen their influence increase. From
their support for rogue regimes such as those in Iran, North Korea,
and Syria to their military and nuclear buildups to their
aggressive use of cyber warfare and intelligence theft, Moscow and
Beijing are playing the game for keeps. Meanwhile America, pledged
to "leading from behind," no longer does much leading at all. In
Return to Winter, Douglas E. Schoen and Melik Kaylan systematically
chronicle the growing threat from the Russian-Chinese Axis, and
they argue that only a rebirth of American global leadership can
counter the corrosive impact of this antidemocratic alliance, which
may soon threaten the peace and security of the world.
The Nixon Effect examines the 37th president's political legacy in
broad-ranging ways that make clear, for the first time, the breadth
and duration of his influence on American political life. The book
argues that Nixon is the key political figure in postwar American
politics in multiple ways, some barely acknowledged until now. His
legacy includes a generational shift in the ideological
orientations of both the Republican and Democratic parties; the
Nixon influence, both intentional and unintentional, was to push
both parties further out to their ideological poles. So stark was
Nixon's influence on party identities that it shaped the hardened
partisan polarization in Washington today and the evolution of what
has come to be called Red and Blue America. Stemming in part from
this, and also from Nixon's scorched-earth political warfare and
eventually his Watergate scandal, we have also seen the evolution
of politics as war, where adversaries and ideological opponents are
seen as evil or unpatriotic. Finally, Nixon's pioneering
tactics--from the identification of the Silent Majority to the
Southern Strategy, from "triangulating" between both parties and
claiming the political center to launching the culture war with
attacks on "elites" in media, academia, and the courts--have shaped
political communications and strategy ever since. Other books have
argued for Nixon's importance, but Douglas E. Schoen's is the first
to take into account the full range of this fascinating man's
influence. While not discounting Nixon's many misdeeds, Schoen
treats his presidency and its importance with the seriousness--and
evenhandedness--that the subject deserves.
In "The Power of the Vote," Douglas E. Schoen--one of the
premier strategists in the history of Democratic politics--offers a
never-before-seen glimpse inside the most pivotal campaigns of his
storied career, providing an essential primer for understanding the
elections of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
From the legendary New York City mayoral race of 1977 to his
twenty-year efforts to modernize Israeli politics to Bill Clinton's
1996 reelection campaign, Schoen takes you on a fascinating,
eye-opening ride across the international political landscape of
the past three decades. Demonstrating how politics has evolved and
how he has utilized the latest technology to help candidates win
the hearts and minds of the public, he also presents a detailed
discussion of the strategies and tactics that will shape the future
of electoral politics and lead the Democrats back to the White
House in 2008.
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