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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in Security AffairsPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501738081
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.

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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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