We All Lost the Cold War
Will be published approx. on 23. July 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
566 pages
978-0-691-01941-3 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. They conclude that the strategy of deterrence prolonged rather than ended the conflict between the superpowers.
Reviews / Votes
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994 "The orthodoxy ... is that deterrence worked and the arms race defeated the Soviet Union. Hitherto there has been little dissent from those positions, apart from those 'revisionist' historians who merely turned the whole orthodoxy on its head... Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein are not revisionists in that sense. They are far too sensible for emotional nonsense of that kind. Yet their work is quite as unorthodox, probably as shocking to the closed corporation of Cold War 'scholars' but much more surprising than that of the Chomskyans."--Godfrey Hodgson, The Independent (London) "They've got it just right. It is a dangerous conclusion that the West won the Cold War. The argument that one side won the Cold War is mistaken. We all lost the Cold War, particularly the USA and the USSR. We all won by ending it."--Mikhail Sergeevich GorbachevMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
895 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-01941-3 (9780691019413)
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Richard Ned Lebow | Janice Gross Stein
We All Lost the Cold War
E-Book
07/1995
1st Edition
Princeton University Press
€298.95
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Persons
Richard Ned Lebow is Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Janice Gross Stein is Harrison Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation at the University of Toronto.
Content
PrefaceAbbreviationsCh. 1Introduction3Pt. 1The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962Ch. 2Missiles to Cuba: Foreign-Policy Motives19Ch. 3Missiles to Cuba: Domestic Politics51Ch. 4Why Did Khrushchev Miscalculate?67Ch. 5Why Did the Missiles Provoke a Crisis?94Ch. 6The Crisis and Its Resolution110Pt. 2The Crisis in the Middle East, October 1973Ch. 7The Failure to Prevent War, October 1973149Ch. 8The Failure to Limit the War: The Soviet and American Airlifts182Ch. 9The Failure to Stop the Fighting198Ch. 10The Failure to Avoid Confrontation226Ch. 11The Crisis and Its Resolution261Pt. 3Deterrence, Compellence, and the Cold WarCh. 12How Crises Are Resolved291Ch. 13Deterrence and Crisis Management324Ch. 14Nuclear Threats and Nuclear Weapons348Postscript. Deterrence and the End of the Cold War369Notes377Appendix523Name Index527General Index535