Learning In U.s. And Soviet Foreign Policy
Westview Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 3. July 1991
Book
Hardback
881 pages
978-0-8133-8264-7 (ISBN)
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Description
Are policymakers capable of learning about the complex international environment they must deal with when formulating foreign policy? Interest in the phenomenon of "learning" has been growing, driven in part by the advent of Gorbachev, and by prospects for ending the Cold War. In this book, leading scholars explore the theoretical and practical implications of the evolution of US and Soviet leaders' beliefs in the past 45 years. This volume aims to be of interest to students and scholars interested in the concept of learning and its role in international relations, students concerned with interpretive histories of superpower foreign policy and specialists needing analyses that explore the correlation between cognitive and policy changes.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-8264-7 (9780813382647)
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George Breslauer | Philip Tetlock
Learning In U.s. And Soviet Foreign Policy
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06/1991
1st Edition
Westview Press Inc
€57.19
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Content
Part 1 Perspectives on learning: introduction, George Breslauer and Philip Tetlock; assessing learning - some conceptual and methodological issues, P. Tetlock; collective learning - some theoretical speculations, Ernst B. Hass; why political competition inhibits learning in Soviet foreign policy, Richard Anderson. Part 2 Case studies of US foreign policy: US policy toward arms control, Robert Levine; US policy toward Western Europe, Wallace Thies; US policy toward China, Banning Garrett; US policy in the Middle East, Steven Spiegel; the lessons of Korea and the Vietnam decisions of 1965, Yuen Foong-Khong; the Nixon-Kissinger structure of peace, Deborah Larson; US policy toward the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Alexander Dallin. Part 3 Case studies of Soviet foreign policy: Soviet policy toward arms control, Coit Blacker; Soviet policy toward Western Europe, Jonathan Haslam; Soviet policy toward China, Allen Whiting; Soviet policy in the Middle East, G. Breslauer; Soviet decisions to intervene, Ted Hopf; attempted learning - Soviet policy toward the United States in the Brezhnev era, Franklyn Griffiths; Soviet learning in the 1980s, Robert Legvold. Part 4 Comparative and interactive perspectives: superpower learning and nuclear nonproliferation, Peter Lavoy; interactive learning in US and Soviet arms control efforts, Steven Weber; what have we learned about learning?, George Breslauer.