Creating the Second Cold War - The Discourse of Politics

Informationen zum Autor Simon Dalby is the CIGI Chair in the Political Economy of Climate Change at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University! Canada. This Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of classic titles on the history and politics of the 20th century. Zusammenfassung The Cold War is over, yet many attitudes and analyses typical of the period persisted in the strategic thinking of the Great Powers. In this brilliantly original study, Simon Dalby uses the conceptual tools of geopolitical analysis to uncover the essence of American strategic discourse. Focussing on the period of the late 1970s, he shows how Washington pressure groups, political organisations and, in particular, the Committee on the Present Danger, recreated a language of confrontation that deeply influenced Western attitudes towards the Soviet Union in ways that continue to shape foreign policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefacePart I – ContextIntroduction1. Social Theory and Security Discourse2. Discourse and Otherness3. Security and Geopolitics4. Threat DiscoursePart II – TextIntroduction 5. Sovietology6. Power Politics7. Geopolitics8. Nuclear StrategyPart III – Contra-TextIntroduction9. The Geopolitics of Security Discourse10. Critical GeopoliticsBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Simon Dalby, Simon (Wilfrid Laurier University Dalby, Dalby Simon
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2016
• EAN: 9781474291248
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-9124-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic; History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era