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With a historian's eye and a theorist's ingenuity, Michael Doyle, whose writings on liberal peace have revolutionized modern statesmanship, cogently assesses the tectonic shifts threatening a global order that has held for more than seventy years. As tensions among China, Russia, and the US escalate perilously toward a new Cold War, Doyle introduces a radical paradigm that will facilitate the international cooperation necessary to avert the global threats of our time. Combining dramatic history with trenchant analysis and landmark theory, Doyle explores the impacts of cyberwarfare, foreign election meddling, and the unprecedented schism of modern politics on American foreign policy. He demonstrates that there can be no success in addressing climate change without China's cooperation, nor any hope of averting nuclear catastrophe without Russia's. In the tradition of Gaddis' The Cold War and Clark's The Sleepwalkers, Cold Peace provides one of the most necessary analyses of global power in decades.

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At a perilous moment in world affairs, one of the world's greatest political scientists has produced an elegant and sophisticated, yet also crisp and highly readable, argument about the wisest path forward. Michael Doyle has no illusions about the challenges posed by Russia and China (as well as the two of them working in concert), and is deeply troubled by the state of American democracy. But his prescription for establishing a cold peace with Moscow and Beijing--a strategy of live and let live, even as we compete--makes eminent sense as a way to reduce the risks of catastrophic war. And his specific ideas about how to do so on issues including Ukraine and Taiwan could be important catalysts for action.--Michael E. O'Hanlon, Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy, Brookings Institution, and author of Military History for the Modern Strategist One of our deepest thinkers about international affairs explains how to avoid a new cold war with China and Russia. Whether you agree with all his solutions or not, this book is a must-read for everyone who seeks to avert the looming threats of our times.--Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University, and author of Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump Columbia University political scientist Doyle (Liberal Peace) surveys sore spots in America's relations with China and Russia, including economic and military rivalries, the war in Ukraine, clashes over Taiwan, and Chinese and Russian anger at Western criticisms of their human rights abuses. The author traces these tensions to domestic politics marked by nationalism, populism, and imperial nostalgia, and a need for foreign enemies and military adventures to distract the public from corrupt, authoritarian rule in Russia and China and economic inequality in the U.S.... Doyle offers plenty of insights into contemporary geopolitical frictions.-- Publishers Weekly

Columbia University political scientist Doyle (Liberal Peace) surveys sore spots in America's relations with China and Russia, including economic and military rivalries, the war in Ukraine, clashes over Taiwan, and Chinese and Russian anger at Western criticisms of their human rights abuses. The author traces these tensions to domestic politics marked by nationalism, populism, and imperial nostalgia, and a need for foreign enemies and military adventures to distract the public from corrupt, authoritarian rule in Russia and China and economic inequality in the U.S.... Doyle offers plenty of insights into contemporary geopolitical frictions.-- Publishers Weekly

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Michael Doyle is a university professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Berlin, Germany.

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