The Last Decade of the Cold War: From Conflict Escalation to Conflict TransformationOlav Njølstad Psychology Press, 2004 - 435 من الصفحات 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. |
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The 1980s Revisited or the Cold War as History Again | 3 |
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The European Role at the Beginning and Particularly the | 60 |
Economic Constraints and the Turn towards Superpower | 83 |
Turning Points in Soviet | 118 |
The Sources of New Thinking in Soviet Politics | 135 |
The US Role in Winding Down the Cold War 198090 | 179 |
Entering the Second Era of the Cold War | 196 |
Reagans AntiRevolutionary Offensive in the Third World | 241 |
Germany in the Last Decade of the Cold War | 265 |
French Diplomacy and the Last Decade | 288 |
Helping to Open the Door? Britain in the Last Decade of | 317 |
The Deployment | 332 |
NATOs Northern Frontline in the 1980s | 360 |
A View from | 372 |
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