Surviving the Millennium - American Global Strategy, the Collapse of the Soviet Empire, and the Question of Peace

List of contents

Introduction: US-Soviet/Russian Relations in the Twilight Zone
Five Dimensions of Double Containment
Strategic Leveraging, Geohistorical Analogies, and The Question of Global Peace
Origins and Dynamics of the US-Soviet Antagonism
An Increasingly Perforated Iron Curtain
Not-So-Inadvertent Roll Back
US Economic Atrophy, Soviet Collapse, and the Rise of Global Geoeconomic Rivalry
Nuclear and Conventional Arms Rivalries and the Question of Parity
The US-Russian Courtship (1991-??)
Toward a New Global Concert? or End of the US-Russian Courtship?
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

HALL GARDNER is Professor and Chair of the Department of International Affairs and Politics at The American University of Paris. He is the author of Surviving the Millennium: American Global Strategy, the Collapse of the Soviet Empire, and the Question of Peace (Praeger, 1994).

Product details

• Authors: Hall Gardner
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.1994
• EAN: 9780275947545
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94754-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Weight: 624 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Cultural Studies, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, International Relations, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era, Politics, Law, and Government: International Relations