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We All Lost the Cold War
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1995
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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.
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Richard Ned Lebow is Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Janice Gross Stein is Harrison Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation at the University of Toronto.
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"The orthodoxy . . . is that deterrence worked and the arms race defeated the Soviet Union. Hitherto there has been little dissent from those positions, apart from those 'revisionist' historians who merely turned the whole orthodoxy on its head. . . . Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein are not revisionists in that sense. They are far too sensible for emotional nonsense of that kind. Yet their work is quite as unorthodox, probably as shocking to the closed corporation of Cold War 'scholars' but much more surprising than that of the Chomskyans."---Godfrey Hodgson, The Independent (London)
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994"
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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PREFACE
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ABBREVIATIONS
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CHAPTER ONE Introduction
1 - PART ONE: THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, 1962
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CHAPTER TWO. Missiles to Cuba: Foreign-Policy Motives
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CHAPTER THREE. Missiles to Cuba: Domestic Politics
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CHAPTER FOUR. Why Did Khrushchev Miscalculate?
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CHAPTER FIVE. Why Did the Missiles Provoke a Crisis?
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CHAPTER SIX. The Crisis and Its Resolution
110 - PART TWO: THE CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, OCTOBER 1973
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CHAPTER SEVEN. The Failure to Prevent War, October 1973
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CHAPTER EIGHT. The Failure to Limit the War: The Soviet and American Airlifts
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CHAPTER NINE. The Failure to Stop the Fighting
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CHAPTER TEN. The Failure to Avoid Confrontation
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CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Crisis and Its Resolution
261 - PART THREE: DETERRENCE, COMPELLENCE, AND THE COLD WAR
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CHAPTER TWELVE. How Crises Are Resolved
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Deterrence and Crisis Management
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Nuclear Threats and Nuclear Weapons
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POSTSCRIPT: Deterrence and the End of the Cold War
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NOTES
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APPENDIX
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NAME INDEX
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GENERAL INDEX
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Keywords for this book
Soviet Union; Nikita Khrushchev; Leonid Brezhnev; Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan; Cold War; Dissolution of the Soviet Union; Era of Stagnation; Mutual assured destruction; Disarmament; War termination; Evil empire; Cuban Missile Crisis; Cold War II; Berlin Blockade; Berlin Crisis of 1961; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; Purge; Old Bolshevik; John F. Kennedy; Soviet Union–United States relations; Anti-imperialism; Anti-war movement; Soviet Empire; Glasnost; Embargo; Allen Dulles; Failed state; Nuclear disarmament; Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact; War of Attrition; War; Andrei Gromyko; Assassination; Dictatorship; Surgical strike; Impeachment; Dean Rusk; Doomsday device; Nuclear warfare; Quarantine Speech; Disinformation; Fallout shelter; Sergei Khrushchev; Proxy war; Declaration of war; War-weariness; Ridicule; Saturday Night Massacre; Nuclear holocaust; Abstention; The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence; Communist revolution; Hungarian Revolution of 1956; International crisis; Perestroika; Superiority (short story); Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany; Why England Slept; War of ideas; Allied-occupied Germany; Stalinism; Pre-emptive nuclear strike; John Foster Dulles; Minister without portfolio; Dr. Strangelove; Deterrence theory; 1960 U-2 incident; Soviet–Afghan War; Ceasefire; Nuclear blackmail
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
