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The détente Deception
Soviet and Western bloc Competition and the Subversion of Cold War Peace
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2012
Summary
The Détente Deception examines the competition between the U.S.-led Western bloc and the Soviet bloc in the less developed world during the final years of Détente. Rivero assesses whether or not the Soviet bloc pushed for strategic gains in the Third World and whether this contributed to the U.S. decision to abandon Détente in 1979. This view is articulated by many acclaimed scholars such as Stephen Walt (1992), John Gaddis (1997), and Vladislav Zubok (2007). They make the case that during the final years of Détente and throughout the 1980s, U.S. policy in places such as Nicaragua and Angola was a calculated response to Soviet aggression in the less-developed world.
This book challenges this position as the quantitative evidence points to U.S. aggression. Not only did the Western bloc push to maintain dominance over the Third World, archival evidence also suggests the US made significant efforts in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan during the final years of Détente to dismantle the Soviet bloc.
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Edition
1/2012
Copyright Year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-6043-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-6044-0
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
150
Product Type
Monograph
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Abstract No access Pages 1 - 2
I. Introduction and Methodology No access Pages 3 - 18
II. The Soviet Aggression Thesis and its Critics No access Pages 19 - 36
III. Soviet and Western Bloc Foreign Aid to the Less Developed World No access Pages 37 - 62
IV. The Soviet Response in the Third World No access Pages 63 - 92
V. U.S. Response to the Soviet Threat in the Third World No access Pages 93 - 118
VI. Consequences of Détente: Collapse of Soviet Union No access Pages 119 - 126
VII. Conclusion and Final Thoughts No access Pages 127 - 136
