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. Klappentext 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.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 Preface Part I - Context Introduction 1. Social Theory and Security Discourse 2. Discourse and Otherness 3. Security and Geopolitics 4. Threat Discourse Part II - Text Introduction 5. Sovietology 6. Power Politics 7. Geopolitics 8. Nuclear Strategy Part III - Contra-Text Introduction 9. The Geopolitics of Security Discourse 10. Critical Geopolitics Bibliography Index ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Simon Dalby, Simon (Wilfrid Laurier University Dalby, Dalby Simon
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 06.10.2016
• EAN: 9781474291248
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-9124-8
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic; History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia della cultura; 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