The Elusive Balance : : Power and Perceptions during the Cold War /

The Elusive Balance : : Power and Perceptions during the Cold War / / 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 interpretati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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