Changing Course : Ideas, Politics, and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan

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Soviet foreign policy changed dramatically in the 1980s. The shift, bitterly resisted by the country's foreign policy traditionalists, ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. In Changing Course, Sarah Mendelson demonstrates that interpretations th...

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Autor principal: Mendelson, Sarah Elizabeth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politics and government
Diplomatic relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Soviet Union.
Afghanistan.
Afghānistān > Histoire > 1979-1989 (Intervention sovietique)
URSS > Relations exterieures > Afghānistān.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement > 1985-1991.
URSS > Relations exterieures > 1985-1991.
Afghanistan > History > Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Afghanistan.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1985-1991.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > 1985-1991.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Soviet foreign policy changed dramatically in the 1980s. The shift, bitterly resisted by the country's foreign policy traditionalists, ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. In Changing Course, Sarah Mendelson demonstrates that interpretations that stress the impact of the international system, and particularly of U.S. foreign policy, or that focus on the role of ideas or politics alone, fail to explain the contingent process of change. Mendelson tells a story of internal battles where ""misfit"" ideas--ones that severely challenged th
Descripción Física:1 online resource (168 pages).
ISBN:9781400864829

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