Changing course: Ideas, Politics, and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
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Beteilige Person: Mendelson, Sarah Elizabeth (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press 2014
Schriftenreihe:Princeton studies in international history and politics
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Beschreibung:Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Encounters with a Declining Power; Abbreviations
Soviet foreign policy changed dramatically in the 1980s. The shift, bitterly resisted by the country's foreign policy traditionalists, ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. In Changing Course, Sarah Mendelson demonstrates that interpretations that stress the impact of the international system, and particularly of U.S. foreign policy, or that focus on the role of ideas or politics alone, fail to explain the contingent process of change. Mendelson tells a story of internal battles where ""misfit"" ideas--ones that severely challenged th
Umfang:158 pages
ISBN:9781400864829
1400864828