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John Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the
Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II is now
available with a new preface by the author. This book moves beyond
the focus on economic considerations that was central to the work
of New Left historians, examining the many other forces -- domestic
politics, bureaucratic inertia, quirks of personality, and
perceptions of Soviet intentions -- that influenced key decision
makers in Washington, and in doing so seeks to analyze these
determinants of policy in terms of their full diversity and
relative significance.
John Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the
Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II is now
available with a new preface by the author. This book moves beyond
the focus on economic considerations that was central to the work
of New Left historians, examining the many other forces -- domestic
politics, bureaucratic inertia, quirks of personality, and
perceptions of Soviet intentions -- that influenced key decision
makers in Washington, and in doing so seeks to analyze these
determinants of policy in terms of their full diversity and
relative significance.
The relationship between international order and justice has long
been central to the study and practice of international relations.
For most of the twentieth century, states and international society
gave priority to a view of order that focused on the minimum
conditions for coexistence in a pluralist, conflictual world.
Justice was seen either as secondary or sometimes even as a
challenge to order. Recent developments have forced a reassessment
of this position.
This book sets current concerns within a broad historical and
theoretical context; explores the depth and scope of this presumed
solidarism amidst the difficulties of acting on the basis of a more
strongly articulated liberal position; and underscores the
complexity and abiding tensions inherent in the relationship
between order and justice. Chapters examine a wide range of state
and transnational perspectives on order and justice, including
those from China, India, Russia, the United States, and the Islamic
world. Other chapters investigate how the order-justice
relationship is mediated within major international institutions,
including the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and the
global financial institutions.
Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945
is a path-breaking work that uses biographical techniques to test
one of the most important and widely debated questions in
international politics: Did the advent of the nuclear bomb prevent
the Third World War? Many scholars and much conventional wisdom
assumes that nuclear deterrence has prevented major power war since
the end of the Second World War; this remains a principal tenet of
US strategic policy today. Others challenge this assumption, and
argue that major war would have been `obsolete' even without the
bomb. This book tests these propositions by examining the careers
of ten leading Cold War statesmen-Harry S Truman; John Foster
Dulles; Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Josef Stalin; Nikita
Krushchev; Mao Zedong; Winston Churchill; Charles De Gaulle; and
Konrad Adenauer-and asking whether they viewed war, and its
acceptability, differently after the advent of the bomb. The book's
authors argue almost unanimously that nuclear weapons did have a
significant effect on the thinking of these leading statesmen of
the nuclear age, but a dissenting epilogue from John Mueller
challenges this thesis.
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