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Superpower illusions : how myths and false ideologies led America astray-- and how to return to reality /

Former U.S. ambassador to the USSRJack F. Matlock refutes the enduring idea that the United States forced the collapse of the Soviet Union by applying military and economic pressure--with wide-ranging implications for U.S. foreign policy. Matlock argues that Gorbachev, not Reagan, undermined Communi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Matlock, Jack F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Myths and realities
  • Framework diplomacy : Reagan's approach to Gorbachev
  • Cleanup diplomacy and conclusions we can draw
  • Regime change : the Soviet Union disintegrates
  • A new world? (1992)
  • The unipolar delusion (the 1990s)
  • Hubris and its consequences (1993-2000)
  • Asleep at the switch : 9/11 and the "War on Terror"
  • Tar baby Iraq
  • Ideology trumps reality (2001-2009)
  • Course change
  • An agenda, not a doctrine.