Who Influenced Whom?: Lessons from the Cold WarUniversity Press of America, 2002 - 260 pages Urging the rejection of the realist paradigm of international relations that rested upon assumptions of balance of power concepts, the author examines eight case studies from the Cold War as a move towards setting international relations concepts with more "utility" in influencing other countries. Superpower relations with Syria, Turkey, Ethiopia, and Guinea are explored in terms of strategic relationship concepts. Taiwan and Cuba were chosen as cases in which superpowers established a relationship to a small country in order to protect it from an ideological rival. Finally, the cases of Yugoslavia and Uganda were selected as being examples where a superpower established a relationship with a country in order to gain at the expense of the other superpower. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. |
Contents
The Rise of the Realist Paradigm | 1 |
Strategic Cases | 13 |
Syria and the Superpowers | 15 |
Turkey and the United States | 39 |
Ethiopia and the United States | 59 |
Guinea and the Soviet Union A Case of Defiance | 83 |
Ideological Cases | 99 |
Taiwan and the United States A Case of Manipulated Values | 101 |
Uganda and the Soviet Union A Case of Idiosyncratic Action | 177 |
Analysis | 197 |
A Theory of Influence | 199 |
Lessons from the Cold War | 209 |
The Post Cold War World | 217 |
The New World Order as Status Quo Ante | 219 |
Conclusion | 227 |
Postscript | 233 |
Cuba and the Soviet Union A Case of Airing Dirty MarxistLeninist Laundry | 125 |
Political Cases | 149 |
Yugoslavia and the United States A Case of Mutual Influence | 151 |
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