Superpowers in Economic Decline: U.S. Strategy for the Transcentury Era

ISBN-13: 9780367711665 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str.

Peter A. Wilson

Opis

This book, first published in 1990, evaluates what future policy adjustments the US will have to make in order to successfully navigate a changed national security environment. Discussed are stakes of the threat, and the response of the Soviet Union to the challenge of economic and related social/political decline.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Soviet Economic Decline and Its National Security Implications – Reasons and Responses  3. Whither the Soviet Threat?  4. Economic Constraints on US National Security Spending – Reasons and Responses  5. Taking Stock of the ‘Reagan Revolution’  6. The Defence Investment Dilemma of the 1990s: Contemporary or Transcentury Weapons?  7. Conclusion: Expanding the Scope of US National Security Policy

O autorze

Richard Cohen and Peter A. Wilson