History, the White House and the Kremlin : statesmen as historians / edited by Michael Graham Fry.

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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Notes; 2 United States policy and the Palestine problem: historical dimensions and the creation of an 'alternative narrative'; Notes; 3 The boundaries of rational calculation in Soviet policy towards Japan; Notes; 4 The Cuban Missile Crisis twenty-five years later: the learning continues; The impact of historical episodes on Soviet-American relations; Realism, neorealism and learning; A first attempt at a theory of political learning: a rule-based approach

The limitations of the rule-based conception of learningA second attempt: a script-based approach -- its appeal and limitations; A Soviet model of the 'Caribbean Crisis': Sergeev and Parshin's theory of reasoning and metaphor; Learning within the framework of heuristic search: the acquisition of new scripts from historical episodes; Delineating the concept of learning: innovation in the game of chess; Multiple, simultaneous representations in the game of chess; The historical dimension of chess: the acquisition of new gambits; Extracting lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis

Efforts in 1962 and in 1987-9 to explain Khrushchev's 'switch'The fine art of drawing historical lessons; Notes; 5 The Soviet General Staff: an institution's response to change; The nature of the dependent variable; The institutional characteristics of the Soviet General Staff; The evolution of the Soviet General Staff; Notes; 6 British and American hegemony compared: lessons for the current era of decline; The historical analogy; The historical reality; I International political structures; II. International economic structures; III. International political processes

IV. International economic processesWhither the Pax Americana?; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Being a borrower: the re-emergence of the United States as a debtor nation; Notes; 8 The United States and inter-war money and finance: lessons for Japan's future from America's past; The importance of the problem; Analytical alternatives; America abdicates; Explaining American abdication; Conclusions and implications; Notes; 9 The politics of empire: a theory with an application to the Soviet case; Introduction; Explaining overexpansion; The Soviet case; Soviet strategic concepts

1. Molotov: Western hostility is unconditional the defense has the advantage; 2. Zhdanov: Western hostility is unconditional; offense has the advantage; 3. Malenkov: Western hostility is conditional; the defense has the advantage; 4. Khrushchev and Brezhnev: Western hostility is conditional; offense has the advantage; Domestic politics: atavisms of the revolution from above; Institutions and ideas of the revolution from above; Stalinist atavisms and the politics of expansion; Molotov, the military and the hedgehog strategy; Zhdanov, the militant party and progressive change abroad

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