Learning In U.s. And Soviet Foreign Policy

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.