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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.