208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this book, Allen Lynch challenges the common wisdom that the revolutionary events in Eastern Europe in 1989 and in the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of the cold war. Instead, he argues that the cold war was actually resolved by the early 1970s, as evidenced by the tacit acceptance of a divided Germany and Europe. More recent events thus overthrew not the cold war but the post -cold war... Read more
Preface -- A Note on Usage -- Introduction -- The Legacy of the Past -- The Cold War Is Over … Again -- The Nuclear Family: The Management of the U.S.-Soviet Relationship -- Rhetoric and Reality: U.S. Policy Toward Eastern Europe, 1945–1989 -- The Dynamics of the Present -- The Agonies of Reform in Gorbachev’s USSR -- The Conceptual Revolution in Soviet Foreign Policy -- The Transformation of Soviet Foreign Policy -- The Continuing Importance of Ideology -- Challenges of the Future -- Soviet Collapse and U.S. Foreign Policy -- Prospects -- Documents
Biography
Allen Lynch was assistant director of the W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union, Columbia University, until May 1992, at which time he became associate professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia.
