Turning Points In Ending The Cold War

by Skinner, Kiron K.

• ISBN13: 9780817946326
• ISBN10: 0817946322
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-01
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

Summary

Twenty-five years ago, in the early 1980s, no one could have imagined that only a decade later the cold war would be over. How did it happen? The essays in this collection offer illuminating insights into the key players-Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and others-and the monumental events that led to the collapse of communism.

Author Biography

Kiron K. Skinner is the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and an associate professor of history and political science at Carnegie Mellon University. She serves on the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel and National Security Education Board

Table of Contents

Forewords
A Perspective from Moscow	p. vii
A Perspective from Washington	p. xix
Introductory Essay: Talking Across the Cold War Divide	p. 1
The End of Detente and the Reformulation of American Strategy: 1980-1983	p. 11
Commentary: What Lessons Learned?	p. 40
The Crisis that Didn't Erupt: The Soviet-American Relationship, 1980-1983	p. 63
Commentary: An Alternative Conception of Mutual Cooperation	p. 93
Gorbachev's Foreign Policy: The Concept	p. 111
Commentary: Moving to Globalization	p. 141
Soviet-American Relations in the Third World	p. 149
Commentary: Reversal of Fortune?	p. 182
Europe Between the Superpowers	p. 191
Commentary: Europe Between the Superpowers: A Soviet Perspective	p. 218
German Unification	p. 229
Commentary: German Unification from the Soviet (Russian) Perspective	p. 255
Boris Yeltsin: Catalyst for the Cold War's End	p. 273
Commentary: Boris Yeltsin: Catalyst for the Cold War's End?	p. 306
Contributors	p. 327
Acknowledgments	p. 333
Index	p. 335
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