Changing Course : Ideas, Politics, and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan.

By:

Mendelson, Sarah Elizabeth [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Princeton studies in international history and politicsPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (158 pages)Content type:

text

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online resource

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9781400864829
1400864828

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Changing Course : Ideas, Politics, and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan.DDC classification:

327.47 21

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DK289

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Encounters with a Declining Power; Abbreviations.

Summary: Soviet foreign policy changed dramatically in the 1980s. The shift, bitterly resisted by the country's foreign policy traditionalists, ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. In Changing Course, Sarah Mendelson demonstrates that interpretations that stress the impact of the international system, and particularly of U.S. foreign policy, or that focus on the role of ideas or politics alone, fail to explain the contingent process of change. Mendelson tells a story of internal battles where ""misfit"" ideas--ones that severely challenged th.

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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Encounters with a Declining Power; Abbreviations.

Soviet foreign policy changed dramatically in the 1980s. The shift, bitterly resisted by the country's foreign policy traditionalists, ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. In Changing Course, Sarah Mendelson demonstrates that interpretations that stress the impact of the international system, and particularly of U.S. foreign policy, or that focus on the role of ideas or politics alone, fail to explain the contingent process of change. Mendelson tells a story of internal battles where ""misfit"" ideas--ones that severely challenged th.

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