Soviet efforts to end the Cold War were intended to help revitalize the USSR. Instead, Nick Bisley argues, they contributed crucially to its collapse. Using historical-sociological theory, The End of the Cold War and the Causes of Soviet Collapse shows that international confrontation had been an important element of Soviet rule and that the retreat from this confrontational posture weakened institutional-functional aspects of the state. This played a vital role in making the USSR vulnerable to the forces of economic crisis, elite fragmentation and nationalism which ultimately caused its...
Soviet efforts to end the Cold War were intended to help revitalize the USSR. Instead, Nick Bisley argues, they contributed crucially to its collapse....
Today the debates on globalization between its evangelists and detractorsare still raging. In this concise, balanced and accessible new text, Nick Bisley assesses the nature and extent of globalization, the key debates surrounding it and its impact on and significance for world politics."
Today the debates on globalization between its evangelists and detractorsare still raging. In this concise, balanced and accessible new text, Nick Bis...
BEYOND The Banking Holiday This is our sixth book in "The Coming Series," and has to do with further helping Americans protect and build their life savings. In our previous books, we discuss the weakness of the U.S. banking system, including newly instituted "bail in" program, hyperinflation, expatriation, and protecting one's self by investing in gold. This book is different. It spells out what Global banks intend to do with our savings during the next banking crisis. Americans, including ourselves, felt that when we put our money in our local bank, the money we put in was ours. Not any...
BEYOND The Banking Holiday This is our sixth book in "The Coming Series," and has to do with further helping Americans protect and build their life ...
