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A Politico Top 10 Most Anticipated Book of 2024
A New York Times Notable Book
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
“An absorbing account of 21st-century brinkmanship . . . . one that should be read by every legislator or presidential nominee sufficiently deluded to think that returning America to its isolationist past or making chummy with Putin is a viable option in today’s world.” –New York Times Book Review
The essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with reporting on the frontlines of power from existing wars to looming ones across the globe.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called “The End of History.” Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on CNN’s air as the Ukraine war began, that we are living in a “1939 moment.” History never ended—it barely paused—and the global order as we long have known it is now gone. Powerful nations are determined to assert dominance on the world stage. And as their push for power escalates, a new order will affect everyone across the globe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a part of it, but in reality, this power struggle impacts every corner of our world—from Helsinki to Beijing, from Australia to the North Pole. This is a battle with many fronts: in the Arctic, in the oceans and across the skies, on man-made islands and redrawn maps, and in tech and cyberspace.
Through globe-spanning, exclusive interviews with dozens of political, military, and intelligence leaders, Sciutto defines our times as a return of great power conflict, “a definitive break between the post–Cold War era and an entirely new and uncertain one.” With savvy, thorough, in-person reporting, he follows-up his 2019 bestseller, The Shadow War: Inside Russia’s and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America, which focused on the covert tactics of a hidden conflict.
The Return of Great Powers analyzes a historic and visible shift in real time. It details the realities of this new post–post–Cold War era, the increasingly aligned Russian and Chinese governments, and the flashpoint of a new, global nuclear arms race. And it poses a question: As we consider uncertain, even terrifying, outcomes, will it be possible for the West and Russia and China to prevent a new World War?
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- ISBN: 9780593474150
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Reviews
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October 1, 2023
CNN anchor and chief national security correspondent Sciutto argues that after the post-Cold War quiet we're experiencing a "1939 moment" defined by The Return of Great Powers and their fierce jockeying for dominance. Prepub Alert.
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May 1, 2024
A grim analysis of the "new order of three great powers." It's fittingly Orwellian that the three great powers today roughly correspond to the prophesy of 1984--namely, the U.S., Russia, and China. The U.S. and Russia are in more or less direct conflict today, writes CNN national security correspondent Sciutto, author of The Madman Theory and The Shadow War, in Ukraine. China is watching carefully, notes the author, as it refines plans for a blitzkrieg war on Taiwan "while the world was preoccupied elsewhere." Taiwanese military planners see the war in Ukraine as similar to their own, though in at least some sense they're better equipped to defend their territory. As the author notes, military doctrine holds that an attacker needs to outnumber a defender by three to one, yet Ukraine's costly counteroffensive has been close to parity, which explains what now appears to be an unbreakable stalemate. The conflict in Ukraine has had an immediate effect in reinvigorating NATO and making it more relevant, "reoriented...to its original mission, defending Europe against Russia and, now, a second strategic adversary in China." Ukraine has done a good job of bleeding Russia's army nearly dry, but that does nothing to diminish Russian naval and nuclear power, the former being exerted vigorously in the Arctic, the latter a constant looming threat. Another variable is the continued presence of Trump on the scene, a man who represents Sciutto's observation that "today's world is as rich in accommodationists as the world of the late 1930s." Cleareyed without sensationalism, Sciutto's text closes with the suggestion that China can be seen as the larger long-term threat and that dealing with Beijing will require clear negotiations on areas of both competition (semiconductors) and cooperation (climate change). A knowledgeable, sobering assessment of one of the most consequential geopolitical situations in the world.COPYRIGHT(2024) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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