Changing Course: Ideas, Politics, and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Sarah E. Mendelson
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Description for Changing Course: Ideas, Politics, and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 158 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1FCA; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 399.
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 the status quo--were turned into policies. She draws on firsthand ... Read more
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 the status quo--were turned into policies. She draws on firsthand ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Condition
New
Weight
398 g
Number of Pages
158
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691632254
SKU
V9780691632254
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