The German book launch of Hanna Nottes "We shall outlast them" - the chilling and revelatory 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. As a result, Russia refocused its entire state machinery on one purpose: to outlast the West. With New York Times Chief Diplomatic Correspondent Steven Erlanger und Yoshua 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 is the one pulling 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, Hanna Nottes "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 the director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. She is also a senior associate (non-resident) with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and with the Kennan Institute. Notte's expertise is in Russia's foreign and security policy. 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. During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting researcher with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Carnegie Moscow Center. Based in Berlin, she regularly writes for outlets such as the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, and ZEIT, among others.
Steven Erlanger is the Chief Diplomatic Correspondent of The New York Times, now based in Berlin after six years in Brussels, from August 2017. He was bureau chief of The New York Times in London, Paris and Jerusalem und served as Berlin bureau chief, bureau chief for Central Europe and the Balkans, based in Prague, and chief diplomatic correspondent, based in Washington. From 1991 to 1995, he was posted in Moscow. In addition to other prestigious awards, he shared the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series on Russia and shared another for Explanatory Reporting for a series on Al Qaeda awarded in 2002. In 2013, France made him a chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur. Steven was graduated from Harvard College in 1974 and studied Russian at St. Antony's College, Oxford.
Joshua Yaffa is a contributing writer for The New Yorker. He is also 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. For his work in Russia, he has been named a fellow at New America, a recipient of the American Academy’s Berlin Prize, and a finalist for the Livingston Award. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and master’s degrees in journalism and international affairs from Columbia University.
Foto: Hanna Notte (c) Stefanie Loos
