Rethinking US-Soviet relations
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Rethinking US-Soviet relations
B. Blackwell, 1987
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Includes index
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Description
In the post-Reagan era of what may come to be known as the age of Gorbachev, is "containment" the correct answer to East-West dilemmas? Are arms control, nuclear freeze or Star Wars the sole or the best paths away away from a debilitating conflict? It is to these questions that the author provides a reasoned negative answer, in a multi-faceted discussion that delves deeply into history while ranging widely in search of lessons and guidelines. In this book, a distinguished international relations scholar argues that the foreign policy of the USA and the USSR must be reconstructed to challenge some of the basic assumptions blocking progress in a vital political issue of the age. He demonstrates how we live in an era of opportunity for real improvement in East-West relations if only both sides acknowledge that they are in many ways similar in schematic and dynamic terms.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: On Method: International-Relations Theory, History, and Social Philosophy
- Part I: Structures and Strategies
- 1. From Containment To Concert
- 2. Concert Through Decompression
- Part II: Issues and Interrogations
- 3. From Deterrence To Defence?
- 4. From Restraint To Rollback?
- Part III: Communities and Civilizations
- 5. America Against Russia
- 6. A West With Russia
- Conclusion: Thought-Patterns: Collective Mind and Individual Mindsets
- Appendices
- I. Russia and the West
- II. The West at the Crossroads
- III. The Geopolitics of U.S.-Soviet Conflict
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