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Allin (Aspen Institute, Berlin) combines a narrative of the Cold War with a dissection of the fallacies upon which it was based, concentrating on the "second Cold War" that followed the dTtente of the early 1970s, and on Europe. He analyzes the military, political, and economic errors that distorted the American image of Soviet strength, and discusses the roles of Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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The Soviet empire entered its steepest decline and fall in the very years that Washington was captivated by the specter of a rising Soviet threat. How did American elites get it so wrong? In this important book, Dana Allin combines a masterful narrative of the Cold War with a fascinating dissection of the fallacies upon which its surreal pessimism was based. He focuses on the so-called "second Cold War" that followed the detente of the early 1970s, and on Europe, which remained the central battlefield and prize of that ideological struggle. By suggesting that Western Europe was on the verge of being neutralized, or "Finlandized", by Soviet blackmail, American neoconservatives were able to create a picture of Soviet strength and Western weakness that was, in fact, the very reverse of reality. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Allin analyzes the military, political and economic errors that distorted this picture. His sober and balanced account gives due credit to the uncertainties and complexities of foreign-policy making in a nuclear age. But one conclusion stands out clearly: Given the real balance of power that existed in 1979, recent efforts to give credit to Reagan "toughness" for winning the Cold War are little more than historical caricature.
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Dana H. Allin is deputy director of the Aspen Institute Berlin.
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0312123744
- ISBN 13 9780312123741
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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Book Description orig.boards. 22x14cm, xv, 267 pp Contents: U.S. Foreign Policy & the Soviet Threat: Prologue: Containment in Europe, 1945 - 1969; Henry Kissinger & the Decline of the West; The Neoconservative Alarm; Defining the Threat: The Military Threat: Nuclear Blackmail; The Political Threat: Europe's Slide to the Left; The Economic Threat: Energy & Jobs; The Threat Vanishes: Who Won the Cold War?; Epilogue: America, Europe & the Shadow of a Vanished Empire. Minor rubbing, slight page-edge soil, VG, in a torn dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # 000122
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