Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West (EN)

The German book launch of Hanna Notte's "We shall outlast them" - the story of how Russia's confrontation with the West went global.

Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 produced a rupture with the United States and Europe not seen since the Cold War. Russia refocused its entire state machinery on one purpose: to outlast the West. With New York Times Chief Diplomatic Correspondent Steven Erlanger and Joshua Yaffa from The New Yorker, Russia foreign policy analyst Hanna Notte uncovers how Russia reinvented itself - outmanoeuvring sanctions, forging surprising alliances, charming the Global South and sowing fear in Western societies. Putin pulls the strings, but he is not the only player: propagandists, diplomats, businessmen and rogue agents have done Russia's bidding. From civilian shelters to military bases, presidential palaces to tense borderlands, Notte chronicles the untold stories of those waging Russia's battles - and of everyday people swept up in Putin's agenda.

Blending analysis with reportage from more than a dozen countries, "We shall outlast them" (W. W. Norton & Company Ltd.) paints a sweeping picture of Putin's wartime adaptation and illuminates how Russia has fostered enduring appeal around the globe.

Hanna Notte is director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, senior associate (non-resident) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Kennan Institute. She holds a doctorate and Master's degree in international relations from Oxford University and a BA in social and political sciences from Cambridge University. Based in Berlin, she writes regularly for the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, the New York Times and ZEIT.

Steven Erlanger is Chief Diplomatic Correspondent of The New York Times, based in Berlin since August 2017. He has served as bureau chief in London, Paris, Jerusalem, Prague and Washington, and was posted in Moscow from 1991 to 1995. He shared the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series on Russia, and another for Explanatory Reporting for a series on Al Qaeda in 2002. In 2013, France made him a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur.

Joshua Yaffa is a contributing writer for The New Yorker and the author of "Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia", which won the Orwell Prize in 2021. He has also written for the Economist, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Republic and Foreign Affairs.