Author: S. Neil MacFarlane
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Centre for International Relations, Queen's University
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The "Soviet Threat" Revisited
Author: S. Neil MacFarlane
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Centre for International Relations, Queen's University
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Centre for International Relations, Queen's University
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The Soviet Threat
Author: Richard A. Herr
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Limited War Revisited
Author: Robert E. Osgood
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429727453
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
The strategy of limited war has transformed the American approach to the use of force and played a key role in U.S. foreign policy since World War II. As the mainstay of containment it was designed to deter and fight wars effectively at a tolerable cost and risk in the nuclear age by providing the United States with a flexible and controlled response to a variety of military threats. The strategy met a severe challenge in the Vietnam war; it has nevertheless continued to prevail as a doctrine, if not necessarily with its former utility, by adapting to the changing domestic and international environment after Vietnam. Robert E. Osgood critically examines the success, ambiguities, and flaws of the strategy in its expanding application to postwar military policy. He interprets its impact on the Vietnam war and vice versa, extends his analysis to the new challenges posed by changes in technology and the military balance that affect U.S. security, and concludes with a searching inquiry into the problems of limited war where its utility as an instrument of foreign policy is now most in doubt: the Third World.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429727453
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
The strategy of limited war has transformed the American approach to the use of force and played a key role in U.S. foreign policy since World War II. As the mainstay of containment it was designed to deter and fight wars effectively at a tolerable cost and risk in the nuclear age by providing the United States with a flexible and controlled response to a variety of military threats. The strategy met a severe challenge in the Vietnam war; it has nevertheless continued to prevail as a doctrine, if not necessarily with its former utility, by adapting to the changing domestic and international environment after Vietnam. Robert E. Osgood critically examines the success, ambiguities, and flaws of the strategy in its expanding application to postwar military policy. He interprets its impact on the Vietnam war and vice versa, extends his analysis to the new challenges posed by changes in technology and the military balance that affect U.S. security, and concludes with a searching inquiry into the problems of limited war where its utility as an instrument of foreign policy is now most in doubt: the Third World.
The Rise and Fall of the 'Soviet Threat'
Author: Alan Wolfe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev
Author: Norman A. Graebner
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Chronicles the evolution of the political relationship between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, and that relationship's role in ending the Cold War.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Chronicles the evolution of the political relationship between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, and that relationship's role in ending the Cold War.
The Rise and Fall of the "Soviet Threat"
Author: Alan Wolfe
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Origins of the Great Purges
Author: John Arch Getty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521335706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This is a study of the structure of the Soviet Communist Party in the 1930s. Based upon archival and published sources, the work describes the events in the Bolshevik Party leading up to the Great Purges of 1937-1938. Professor Getty concludes that the party bureaucracy was chaotic rather than totalitarian, and that local officials had relative autonomy within a considerably fragmented political system. The Moscow leadership, of which Stalin was the most authoritarian actor, reacted to social and political processes as much as instigating them. Because of disputes, confusion, and inefficiency, they often promoted contradictory policies. Avoiding the usual concentration on Stalin's personality, the author puts forward the controversial hypothesis that the Great Purges occurred not as the end product of a careful Stalin plan, but rather as the bloody but ad hoc result of Moscow's incremental attempts to centralise political power.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521335706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This is a study of the structure of the Soviet Communist Party in the 1930s. Based upon archival and published sources, the work describes the events in the Bolshevik Party leading up to the Great Purges of 1937-1938. Professor Getty concludes that the party bureaucracy was chaotic rather than totalitarian, and that local officials had relative autonomy within a considerably fragmented political system. The Moscow leadership, of which Stalin was the most authoritarian actor, reacted to social and political processes as much as instigating them. Because of disputes, confusion, and inefficiency, they often promoted contradictory policies. Avoiding the usual concentration on Stalin's personality, the author puts forward the controversial hypothesis that the Great Purges occurred not as the end product of a careful Stalin plan, but rather as the bloody but ad hoc result of Moscow's incremental attempts to centralise political power.
Nunn-Lugar Revisited
Author: Thomas S. Blanton
Publisher:
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Category : Nuclear arms control
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Category : Nuclear arms control
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Just War Revisited
Author: Oliver O'Donovan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521538992
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Leading political theologian Oliver O'Donovan takes a fresh look at some traditional moral arguments about war. Christians differ widely on this issue. The book re-examines questions of contemporary urgency, including the use of biological and nuclear weapons, military intervention, economic sanctions, and the role of the UN. It opens with a challenging dedication to the new Archbishop of Canterbury and proceeds to shed light on vital topics with which that Archbishop and others will be very directly engaged. It should be read by anyone concerned with the ethics of warfare.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521538992
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Leading political theologian Oliver O'Donovan takes a fresh look at some traditional moral arguments about war. Christians differ widely on this issue. The book re-examines questions of contemporary urgency, including the use of biological and nuclear weapons, military intervention, economic sanctions, and the role of the UN. It opens with a challenging dedication to the new Archbishop of Canterbury and proceeds to shed light on vital topics with which that Archbishop and others will be very directly engaged. It should be read by anyone concerned with the ethics of warfare.
Trip Report, a Visit to the Commonwealth of Independent States
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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