The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

 
　　全球地緣政治風險逐漸升溫，當烏克蘭戰爭爆發時，本書作者吉姆．修托（Jim Sciutto）就曾在CNN節目中宣告，全球的穩定秩序已不復見，世界正處在如同1939年第二次世界大戰正式開打前，危機四伏的時刻！從赫爾辛基到北京，從澳大利亞到北極，俄羅斯、中國和西方民主國家，各強權之間彼此的競爭戰略，正危及全球秩序，一場新的世界大戰其實正揭開序幕？
          
　　吉姆．修托現任CNN首席國家安全分析師，曾在亞洲、歐洲和中東擔任外國特派記者逾二十年，常與美、歐、北約等西方國家的軍事、情報與外交高層進行獨家訪談，前作《影子戰爭》甫出版就受到各方高度關注。
 
　　新書《強權回歸》（The Return of Great Powers）對全球正發生的戰爭情勢進行了全方位的分析，本書預警強權之間的核武軍備大賽，可能在各種不確定的情況下，引爆新一波、大規模的國際衝突！本書提出關鍵一問：西方國家、俄羅斯和中國，有可能阻止世界大戰的爆發，避免極其可怕的後果嗎？(文/博客來編譯)

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＂An absorbing account of 21st-century brinkmanship . . . . one that should be read by every legislator or presidential nominee sufficiently deluded to think that returning America to its isolationist past or making chummy with Putin is a viable option in today’s world.＂ -New York Times Book Review

The essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with reporting on the frontlines of power from existing wars to looming ones across the globe.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called ＂The End of History.＂ Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on CNN’s air as the Ukraine war began, that we are living in a ＂1939 moment.＂ History never ended--it barely paused--and the global order as we long have known it is now gone. Powerful nations are determined to assert dominance on the world stage. And as their push for power escalates, a new order will affect everyone across the globe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a part of it, but in reality, this power struggle impacts every corner of our world--from Helsinki to Beijing, from Australia to the North Pole. This is a battle with many fronts: in the Arctic, in the oceans and across the skies, on man-made islands and redrawn maps, and in tech and cyberspace.

Through globe-spanning, exclusive interviews with dozens of political, military, and intelligence leaders, Sciutto defines our times as a return of great power conflict, ＂a definitive break between the post-Cold War era and an entirely new and uncertain one.＂ With savvy, thorough, in-person reporting, he follows-up his 2019 bestseller, The Shadow War: Inside Russia’s and China’s Secret Operations to Defeat America, which focused on the covert tactics of a hidden conflict.

The Return of Great Powers analyzes a historic and visible shift in real time. It details the realities of this new post-post-Cold War era, the increasingly aligned Russian and Chinese governments, and the flashpoint of a new, global nuclear arms race. And it poses a question: As we consider uncertain, even terrifying, outcomes, will it be possible for the West and Russia and China to prevent a new World War?

Jim Sciutto is CNN’s chief national security correspondent and anchor of CNN Newsroom, airing Monday through Friday mornings. He reports and provides analysis across the network’s programs and platforms on all aspects of US national security, including foreign policy, the military, the intelligence community, and the State Department. He has reported from more than fifty countries across the globe including dozens of assignments from inside Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran. Among the honors Sciutto’s work has earned are Emmy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award, the George Polk Award, and the White House Correspondence Association’s Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential coverage. Sciutto is the bestselling author of The Shadow War.