Why the Cold War Ended

A Range of Interpretations

Inbunden, Engelska, 1995

AvMichael E. Salla,Ralph Summy,Michael Salla

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Did the West win the Cold War? Was it a genuine or a contrived conflict? When did it begin? How was its cause related to its end? These are among the questions considered by the contributors of this volume. Asked to assess the combination of socio-political forces and events they attribute to ending the Cold War, they have come up with diverse theories that challenge the self-serving orthodoxy that claims Western military prowess, economic strength, and ideological superiority produced the triumph.The contributors consider a range of views from the contention that the West's military resolve and economic capacity forced the Soviet Union into submission to arguments focusing on U.S. and West European peace movements and East European dissent movements. Between these diametric positions, they weigh the significance of such factors as the new thinking in the Soviet Union and the intelligentsia of Eastern Europe. Through a range of many views, they provide a broad interpretive framework for understanding the Cold War's end, and suggest how that understanding is related to the solving of future conflicts.

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Utgivningsdatum1995-07-17
Mått156 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt595 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieContributions in Political Science
Antal sidor296
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780313295690

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RALPH SUMMY is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Queensland. He also coordinates the interdisciplinary Peace and Conflicts Studies program and is a cofounder and member of the editorial collective of the journal Social Alternatives. He is coauthor with Malcolm Saunders of the book The Australian Peace Movement: A Short History.MICHAEL E. SALLA Professor in the Peace & Conflict Resolution Program at American University. His scholarly interests are in the areas of nonviolence, international relations, peace studies, and ethnic/religious conflict. He is the author of Islamic Radicalism: Muslim Nations and the West (1993) and coeditor of Essay on Peace: Paradigms for Global Order (1995).

Foreword by David LangeAcknowledgmentsIntroduction; Challenging the Emergent Orthodoxy by Ralph SummyPolitical Leaders and Their PoliciesDid Reagan "Win" the Cold War? by April CarterRonald Reaganism Ended the Cold War-In the 1960s by Robert EliasThe End of the Cold War: The Brezhnev Doctrine by Joanne WrightMass Movements and "New Thinking"The Peace Movement Role in Ending the Cold War by David CortrightGorbachev, the Peace Movement, and the Death of Lenin by Jennifer TurpinThe Peace Movement's Role in Ending the Cold War by David CortrightEurope 1989: The Role of Peace Research and the Peace Movement by Johan GaltungThe Erosion of Regime Legitimacy in Eastern European Satellite States: The Case of the German Democratic Republic by Ulf SundhaussenEconomic Determinants"Upper Volta With Rockets": Internal vs. External Factors in the Decline of the Soviet Union by Dennis PhillipsMarxism, Capitalism, and Democracy: Some Post-Soviet Dilemmas by Geoff DowWhose Cold War? by Rick KuhnSystemic Global ChangesCarrots Were More Important Than Sticks in Ending the Cold War by Kevin ClementsHow the Cold War Became an Expensive Irrelevance by Keith SuterEmerging Paradigms & Lessons LearntThe Continuing Cold War by John BurtonIn the Shadow of the Middle Kingdom Syndrome: China in the Post-Cold War World by C. L. ChiouThe Cold War and After: A New Period of Upheaval in World Politics by Joseph CamilleriConclusionThe End of the Cold War: A Political, Historical, and Mythological Event by Michael E. SallaBibliographyIndex