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The last decade of the Cold War : from conflict escalation to conflict transformation / editor: Olav Njlstad.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Nobel Symposium, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- Nobel Symposium (107th : 1998 : Lysebu, Norway)
- Nobel Symposium.
- Series:
- Cass series--Cold War history ; 5.
- Cass series--Cold War history, 1471-3829 ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Military policy--Congresses.
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- World politics--1975-1985--Congresses.
- World politics.
- Perestroĭka--Congresses.
- Perestroĭka.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government--1985-1991--Congresses.
- Soviet Union.
- United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union--Congresses.
- United States.
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States--Congresses.
- Soviet Union--Economic policy--1986-1991--Congresses.
- Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1945-1989--Congresses.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (399 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Portland, OR : Frank Cass, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Annotation The 1980s was a period of almost unprecedented rivalry and tension between the two main actors in the East-West conflict, the United States and the Soviet Union. Why and how that conflict first escalated and thereafter, in an amazingly swift process, was reversed and brought to its peaceful conclusion at the end of the decade is the topic of this volume. With individual contributions by eighteen well-known scholars of international relations and history from various countries, the book addresses the role of the United States, the former Soviet Union, and the countries of western and eastern Europe in that remarkable last decade of the Cold War, and discusses how particular events as well as underlying political, ideological, social, and economic factors may have contributed to the remarkable transformation that took place.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The 1980s Revisited or the Cold War as History—Again; 2. The Beginning and the End: Time, Context and the Cold War; 3. The European Role at the Beginning and Particularly the End of the Cold War; 4. Economic Constraints and the Turn Towards Superpower Cooperation in the 1980s; 5. Explaining the End of the Cold War: Turning Points in Soviet Security Policy; 6. The Sources of 'New Thinking' in Soviet Politics; 7. The Messianic Character of 'New Thinking': Why and What For?
- 8. The US Role in Winding Down the Cold War, 1980–909. The Carter Legacy: Entering the Second Era of the Cold War; 10. The United States and the Transformation of the Cold War; 11. Reagan's Anti-Revolutionary Offensive in the Third World; 12. Germany in the Last Decade of the Cold War; 13. Before the Wall: French Diplomacy and the Last Decade of the Cold War, 1979–89; 14. Helping to Open the Door? Britain in the Last Dec
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-75412-8
- 1-135-75413-6
- 9786610241965
- 1-280-24196-9
- 0-203-64620-7
- 9780203646205
- OCLC:
- 475913177
- Publisher Number:
- 9780203646205
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