Renewed Cold War? World War II? World War I? Or Nothing of the Kind?
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
Year: 2015

In highly mediatized, if not provocative, declarations, Zbigniew Brzez-inski,1 Hillary Clinton,2 John McCain,3 and Russian opposition leader (and former world chess champion) Garry Kasparov,4 among others, have contended that the actions of Russian president Vladimir Putin in annexing Crimea possess significant similarities with Hitler's efforts to "protect" the Ger-man diaspora by annexing the Sudetenland in the interwar period after imperial German disaggregation. In this perspective, Putin ha