Before and After the Cold War: Using Past Forecasts to Predict the Future

ISBN-13: 9780714652290 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 224 str.

George H. Quester

Opis

The end of the Cold War, culminating in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the break-up of the Soviet Union soon thereafter, came as good news for most of the world. But it was news, since almost no-one had predicted the collapse of Communist rule in anything less than several decades.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Is the Nonproliferation Treaty Enough?; Chapter 2 Taiwan and Nuclear Proliferation; Chapter 3 Women in Combat; Chapter 4 America's Interest in Eastern Europe: Toward a Finlandization of the Warsaw Pact?; Chapter 5 Transboundary Television; Chapter 6 America and the Chinese: The Need for Continuing Ambiguity; Chapter 7 Some Barriers to Thinking About Conventional Defense; Chapter 8 Nuclear Pakistan and Nuclear India: Stable Deterrent or Proliferation Challenge?; Chapter 9 America's Response to the New World Dis(order); Chapter 10 The Gains and Costs of Non-Lethal Warfare; Chapter 11 Driving on the Right vs Driving on the Left: International Standards in Historical Perspective; Chapter 12 The Continuing Debate on Minimal Deterrence; Chapter 13 Some Conclusions;

O autorze

George H. Quester