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Politics, paradigms, and intelligence failures : why so few predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union /
Washington's failure to foresee the collapse of its superpower rival ranks high in the pantheon of predictive failures. The question of who got what right or wrong has been intertwined with the deeper issue of ""who won"" the Cold War. Like the disputes over ""who...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Washington's failure to foresee the collapse of its superpower rival ranks high in the pantheon of predictive failures. The question of who got what right or wrong has been intertwined with the deeper issue of ""who won"" the Cold War. Like the disputes over ""who lost"" China and Iran, this debate has been fought out along ideological and partisan lines, with conservatives claiming credit for the Evil Empire's demise and liberals arguing that the causes were internal to the Soviet Union. The intelligence community has come in for harsh criticism for overestimating Soviet strength and overlook. |
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| Notas: | Gorbachev's Foreign Policy: The Architect of Imperial Shrinkage. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781317462439 1317462432 9781315701639 1315701634 9781317462422 1317462424 0765614650 9780765614650 |