We All Lost the Cold War

by Lebow, Richard Ned; Stein, Janice Gross

• ISBN13: 9780691019413
• ISBN10: 069101941X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-07-03
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. They conclude that the strategy of deterrence prolonged rather than ended the conflict between the superpowers.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 3
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Missiles to Cuba: Foreign-Policy Motives	p. 19
Missiles to Cuba: Domestic Politics	p. 51
Why Did Khrushchev Miscalculate?	p. 67
Why Did the Missiles Provoke a Crisis?	p. 94
The Crisis and Its Resolution	p. 110
The Crisis in the Middle East, October 1973
The Failure to Prevent War, October 1973	p. 149
The Failure to Limit the War: The Soviet and American Airlifts	p. 182
The Failure to Stop the Fighting	p. 198
The Failure to Avoid Confrontation	p. 226
The Crisis and Its Resolution	p. 261
Deterrence, Compellence, and the Cold War
How Crises Are Resolved	p. 291
Deterrence and Crisis Management	p. 324
Nuclear Threats and Nuclear Weapons	p. 348
Postscript. Deterrence and the End of the Cold War	p. 369
Notes	p. 377
Appendix	p. 523
Name Index	p. 527
General Index	p. 535
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