The Elusive Balance : : Power and Perceptions during the Cold War / / William Curti Wohlforth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Wohlforth, William Curti,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; [1] Power, Theory, and Hindsight --; [2] Balance-of-Power Theory and Soviet Foreign Policy --; [3] The Origins of Old Thinking --; [4] Confronting the Postwar System, 1945-1953 --; [5] War, Power, and the Postwar Hierarchy, 1945-1953 --; [6] Perceived Power and the Crisis Years, 1956-1962 --; [7] Detente and the Correlation of Forces in the 1970s --; [8] Lessons from the Cold War's Last Battle, 1980-1985 --; [9] Power, Ideas, and the Cold War's End --; [10] The Elusive Balance of Power --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501738081; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501738081
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: William Curti Wohlforth.

Concentrating on the period between 1945 and 1989, The Elusive Balance reevaluates Soviet and U.S. perceptions of the balance of power. William Curti Wohlforth uses a comparative and long-term approach to chart the diplomatic history of relations between the two countries. He offers new interpretations of the onset, course, and end of the Cold War, and the motivations behind Soviet behavior.