Instant New York Times Bestseller A Politico Top 10 Most Anticipated Book of 2024 A New York
Times Notable Book A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice “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?
