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24%OFFRichard Saull - The Cold War and After. Capitalism, Revolution and Superpower Politics.  - 9780745320946 - V9780745320946
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The Cold War and After. Capitalism, Revolution and Superpower Politics.

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Description for The Cold War and After. Capitalism, Revolution and Superpower Politics. paperback. An alternative perspective on the Cold War that broadens our understanding of the nature of political conflict. "Indispensable." Marilyn Young, New York University Series: Critical Introductions to World Politics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; HBG; HBLW3; JPF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.

The Cold War is often presented as an international power struggle between the Soviet Union and the US. Richard Saull challenges this assumption. He broadens our understanding of the defining political conflict of the twentieth-century by stressing the social and ideological differences of the superpowers and how these differences conditioned their international behaviour.

Saull argues that US-Soviet antagonism was part of a wider conflict between capitalism and communism involving states and social forces other than the superpowers. The US was committed to containing revolutionary and communist movements that emerged out of uneven capitalist development.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Critical Introductions to World Politics
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745320946
SKU
V9780745320946
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Ref
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About Richard Saull
Richard Saull is Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Politics, Queen Mary, University of London, and is the author of Rethinking Theory and History in the Cold War (Routledge, 2001) and The Cold War and After (Pluto, 2007).

Reviews for The Cold War and After. Capitalism, Revolution and Superpower Politics.
'A comprehensive reinterpretation of world politics in the 'short twentieth century'
Mark Rupert, Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA 'Richard Saull takes the long view of the rise and fall of the Cold War and into the turbulent history of the twentieth century. A must read for those looking for another ... Read more

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