The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War

Updated to cover the 2022 Russo-Ukraine war and its fallout, this new paperback edition Russia’s hybrid war on the West is only beginning to be understood, but it has changed politics in all affected countries. Those changes are most visible in the lands in between, countries that today lie in between Russia and the European Union, on top of an emerging geopolitical fault line in Europe. This book shows that we can learn important lessons from these lands in between about how hybrid war affects our own politics at home.

Mitchell A. Orenstein is Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program. He is the author of three prize-winning books on postcommunist transitions and co-author of From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Reform in Postcommunist Countries (with Hilary Appel).