Contents

Map

Preface

Introduction

I. THE TIME OF TROUBLES

  1 The ties that bind

  2 The boys in pink trousers

  3 In search of a new Marshall Plan

  4 Stockholm Syndrome

  5 Eastward bound

  6 Bill and Ol’ Boris

  7 A fatal error?

  8 Kosovo

II. REBIRTH

  9 A new start

10 A sense of Putin’s soul

11 From 9/11 to Iraq

12 Mission Accomplished

13. The Colour Revolutions

14 Munich

15 The trap

III. THE HOT PEACE

16 Overload

17 Silicon Valley

18 The return of the chief

19 Ukraine

20 A piece of paradise

21 ‘You do it too’

22 Towards Eurasia

23 The Siberian Candidate

24 Three faces of Russia

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index