Douglas Rivero

The Détente Deception

Soviet and Western bloc Competition and the Subversion of Cold War Peace

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Produktbeschreibung

The Détente Deception examines the competition between the U.S.-led Western bloc and the Soviet bloc in the less developed world during the final years of Détente. Rivero assesses whether or not the Soviet bloc pushed for strategic gains in the Third World and whether this contributed to the U.S. decision to abandon Détente in 1979. This view is articulated by many acclaimed scholars such as Stephen Walt (1992), John Gaddis (1997), and Vladislav Zubok (2007). They make the case that during the final years of Détente and throughout the 1980s, U.S. policy in places such as Nicaragua and Angola was a calculated response to Soviet aggression in the less-developed world. This book challenges this position as the quantitative evidence points to U.S. aggression. Not only did the Western bloc push to maintain dominance over the Third World, archival evidence also suggests the US made significant efforts in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan during the final years of Détente to dismantle the Soviet bloc.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780761860433
• ISBN-10: 0761860436
• Artikelnr.: 36762324

Autorenporträt

By Douglas Rivero

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables Abstract I. Introduction and Methodology II. The Soviet
Aggression Thesis and its Critics III. Soviet and Western Bloc Foreign Aid
to the Less Developed World IV. The Soviet Response in the Third World V.
The U.S. Response to the Soviet Threat in the Third World VI. Consequences
of Détente: Collapse of USSR VII. Conclusion and Final Thoughts