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Turning Points In Ending The Cold War (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.4707309048
EAN: 9780817946326
ISBN: 0817946322
Label: Hoover Institution Press
Manufacturer: Hoover Institution Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 358
Publication Date: November 27, 2007
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Studio: Hoover Institution Press
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Editorial Review:How and why the cold war was finally brought to an end
Twenty years ago, as the United States and the Soviet Union were sliding into yet another round of dangerous confrontation, no one could have imagined that only a decade later the cold war would be over and that Russia and the West would embark on an unprecedented course of economic, political, and military cooperation. How did it happen? The essays in this collection offer illuminating insights into the key players--Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and others--and the monumental events that led to the collapse of communism. The expert contributors examine the end of détente and the beginning of the new phase of the cold war in the early 1980s, when U.S.-Soviet relations seemed to hit a new low. They detail Reagan's radical new strategies aimed at changing Soviet behavior. And they analyze the essence and origins of Mikhail Gorbachev's "new political thinking"--his realization that the cold war was not in Russia's interest and could not end unless his country changed itself-and its critical role in the ultimate transformation of the Soviet Union. In addition the authors describe the peaceful democratic revolutions in Poland and Hungary, the events that brought about the reunification of Germany, the role of events in Third World countries, the critical contributions of Yeltsin, and more. Kiron Skinner is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and an assistant professor of history and political science at Carnegie Mellon University. Contributors: Alexei Arbatov, Karen Brutents, Anatoly Cherniaev, Oleg Grinevsky, David Holloway, Robert Hutchings, Jack F. Matlock Jr., Michael McFaul, George Mirsky, Nikolai Petrov, Condoleezza Rice, Peter Rodman, Kiron Skinner, Philip Zelikow, Vladislav Zubok
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Rating: - Policymakers and academics on the end of the Cold War
Each chapter consists of a thirty-page essay by a policymaker or adviser a specific topic from the end of the Cold War, followed by twenty-page response by an academic. The book has seven such chapters, and topics in early Reagan foreign policy, Gorbachev's foreign policy goals, the roles of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War, German unification, and the impact of Boris Yeltsin. The format succeeds at covering a breadth of topics and including multiple viewpoints from both East ... Read More
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