The 21st Century Cold War is a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the pattern of Russian interference in the internal affairs of other nations, suggesting that what in the Cold war was a simple conflict of East vs. West has expanded into a conflict between Russia and two increasingly separate Wests.

Jeffrey Kaplan is a Professor at Habib University in Karachi, Pakistan, and the author or editor of 22 books and over 70 articles and anthology chapters on religious violence, millenarianism, terrorism, and oppositional religious movements. His most recent Routledge books include Apocalypse,Revolution and Terrorism: From the Sicari to the American Revolt against the Modern World and Radical Religion and Violence: Theory and Case Studies. He is Book Review Editor for Terrorism and Political Violence.

Introduction Jeffrey Kaplan 1. The Wests: Decline Management and Geopolitics David B. Kanin 2. More East than West: The World Council of Churches at the Dawn of the Cold War Jeffrey Kaplan 3. Useful Idiots or Fellow Travelers? The Relationship between the American Far Right and Russia George Michael 4. Russian Foreign Policy Management and Manipulation with the Soviet Successor States Carol K. G. Lutz, Brenda J. Lutz, and James M. Lutz 5. Hybrid Warfare and the Legal Domain Andres B. Munoz Mosquera, Sascha Dov Bachmann, and J. Abraham Munoz Bravo 6. Irregular Militias and Radical Nationalism in Post-Euromaydan Ukraine: The Prehistory and Emergence of the "Azov" Battalion in 2014 Andreas Umland 7. The Africa Policy of Russia János Besenyo 8. The Asymmetric Approach in Russian Security Strategy: Implications for the Nordic Countries Katri Pynnöniemi