Before and after the fall : world politics and the end of the Cold War / edited by Nuno Monteiro, Yale University, Fritz Bartel, Texas A & M University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Monteiro, Nuno P., editor.

Bartel, Fritz, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--1989-.

World politics.

Cold War--Influence.

Cold War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 376 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

As the Cold War came to a close in 1991, US President George H. W. Bush famously saw its shocking demise as the dawn of a 'new world order' that would prize peace and expand liberal democratic capitalism. Thirty years later, with China on the rise, Russia resurgent, and populism roiling the Western world, it is clear that Bush's declaration remains elusive. In this book, leading scholars of international affairs offer fresh insight into why the hopes of the early post-Cold War period have been dashed and the challenges ahead. As the world marks the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union, this book brings together historians and political scientists to examine the changes and continuities in world politics that emerged at the end of the Cold War and shaped the world we inhabit today.

Contents:

Overcoming stagnation : global finance and the search for "new thinking" on the end of the Cold War / Fritz Bartel

Mikhail Gorbachev : the anatomy of new thinking / Sergey Radchenko

Peace through strength and quiet diplomacy : grand strategy lessons from the Reagan administration / Simon Miles

"Keeping them well behind" : the United States, Soviet decline, and the shape of European security at Cold War's end / Joshua Shifrinson

Only one way forward : the Chinese Communist Party and the rupture of 1989 / Julian B. Gewirtz

The nuclear age : during and after the Cold War / Robert Jervis

Legitimating primacy after the Cold War : how liberal talk matters to US foreign policy / Stacie E. Goddard and Ronald R. Krebs

Russia's rejection of liberal politics : Marxist critiques of Trotsky and Fukuyama / Chris Miller

Continuity and change in Russian grand strategy / Michael Kofman

The stickiness of strategy : Soviet and Russian nuclear doctrine / Kristin ven Bruusgaard

Avoiding the limelight : Deng Xiaoping and China's Policy toward the United States, 1989-1991 / Yafeng Xia

Great powers and the spread of autocracy since the Cold War / Seva Gunitsky

Seeds of failure : the end of the Cold War and the failure of the Russian democratic transition and Western integration / Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry

The United States and NATO after the end of the Cold War : explaining and evaluating enlargement and its alternatives / James Goldgeier and Joshua Shifrinson

The historical legacy of 1989 : the arc to another Cold War? / Mary Sarotte

Requiem for a Cold War : America, Russia, and the Muslim world 1985-1993 / Douglas Little

After primacy : exploring the contours of 21st century great power rivalry / Rebecca Lissner, Mira Rapp-Hooper, Don Casler, and Laura Resnick Samotin

World order across the end of the Cold War / Nuno P. Monteiro.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Dec 2021).

ISBN:

9781108906777

110890677X

9781108910651

1108910653

9781108910194

110891019X

OCLC:

1260692680