In Edward Lucas’s The New Cold War, Moscow’s new battle with the west is not about ideology but power, writes Angus Macqueen
Saturday February 23, 2008
The New Cold War
by Edward Lucas
352pp, Bloomsbury, £18.99
This book reads like a throwback to an era we hoped had passed into history. Painted in black and white, the anti-hero is a Kremlin with evil designs upon the world and Europe in particular. Facing this conspiracy is a naive, disorganised west, supposedly gullible in its liberal openness and democratic values. There are dissidents and fellow travellers – no longer the muddle-headed ideological souls of the left but, ironically, corporate businessmen in their pursuit of a short-term buck.