Politics, paradigms, and intelligence failures : why so few predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seliktar, Ofira
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2015.
Temas:
1953-1991
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Politics and government
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1985-1991.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement > 1985-1991.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement > 1953-1985.
Soviet Union
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Theories of political change and prediction of change : methodological problems
  • 2. Oligarchic petrification or pluralistic transformation : paradigmatic views of the Soviet Union in the 1970s
  • 3. Paradigms and the debate on relations with the Soviet Union : d©♭tente, new internationalism, and neoconservatism
  • 4. The Reagan administration and the Soviet interregnum : accelerating the demise of the communist empire
  • 5. Acceleration : tinkering around the edges, 1985-1986
  • 6. Perestroika : systemic change, 1987-1989
  • 7. The unintended consequences of radical transformation : losing control of the revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1990-1991
  • 8. Reflections on predictive failures.

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