Quester Before and After the Cold War

Using Past Forecasts to Predict the Future
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-28546-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

The end of the Cold War came as good news for most of the world. No one had predicted the collapse of Communist rule for several decades. This book looks at how political scientists failed to predict such a quick resolution and ways in which the world might develop post Cold War.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quester, George H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Is the nonproliferation treaty enough?; Taiwan and nuclear proliferation; women in combat; America's interest in Eastern Europe - toward a Findlandization of the Warsaw Pact?; transboundary television; America and the Chinese - the need for continuing ambiguity; some barriers to thinking about conventional defense; nuclear Pakistan and nuclear India - stable deterrent or proliferation challenge?; America's response to the New World (Dis)Order; the gains and costs of non-lethal warfare; driving on the right vs driving on the left - international standards in historical perspective; the continuing debate on minimal deterrence; some conclusions.