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Images and Arms Control - Perceptions of the Soviet Union in the Reagan Administration (Hardcover)
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Images and Arms Control - Perceptions of the Soviet Union in the Reagan Administration (Hardcover)
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It is no secret that the language of politics is as highly
suggestive as it is subjective: foreign relations are accompanied
by a changing array of names and images. In Images and Arms
Control, Keith Shimko takes a close look at the Reagan
Administration's attitudes toward the Soviet Union and explores the
important relationship between "enemy" images and arms control
policy preferences. The author examines how George Schultz, Caspar
Weinberger, Richard Perle, Richard Burt, and Reagan himself
perceived the Soviet Union - including their beliefs about Soviet
capabilities, motives, attitudes toward the United States, and
decision-making processes. He demonstrates correspondences among
their individual perceptions of the Soviet Union and the policies
each of these influential officials advocated in debates over SALT
II, INF, START, and SDI. Images and Arms Control provides a review
of the relevant theory and research in political psychology and
international relations; its empirical approach - which employs
rigorous, clearly explained content analytic techniques - lays the
groundwork for the author to expand our understanding of the
psychological bases of foreign policy decision making. Periods of
transition allow recognition, and Images and Arms Control appears
at just a time: current perceptions of the Soviet Union and the
adoption of new players in the "enemy" role provide ironic and
timely confirmation of Shimko's approach. His study provides a
clear model for ongoing exploration of the impact of images and
perceptions - and cognitive variables in general - on foreign
policy decision making.
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