Expanding the Frontiers: Superpower Intervention in the Cold War

by Karen Feste

Overview

Karen A. Feste examines the history of superpower intervention in domestic conflicts around the world during the Cold War era. The historical significance of the role that superpower intervention has played in shaping issues and strategies for many independent nations is thoroughly explored by Feste. Her unique analysis goes beyond a reexamination of dramatic instances of American and Soviet intervention to present a combination of aggregate event data methodology and historical case studies; general patterns in the nature of superpower intervention throughout four decades are highlighted; and U.S.-Soviet behavior is carefully and consistently compared across the entire period of the Cold War.

This work will be of great interest to scholars and historians in political science, international relations, military studies, and geopolitics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275934187
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/20/1992
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile:	1430L (what's this?)

About the Author

KAREN A. FESTE is Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Conflict Resolution Program at the University of Denver. She has served as a Fulbright Professor at the University of Vienna and the Diplomatic Academy of Austria and is the author of Plans for Peace: Negotiation and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Greenwood, 1991).

Table of Contents

Preface
The Primacy of Intervention in the Cold War
Rationale and Argument for Global Reach
General Trends in Superpower Intervention
Cold War Origins: The Civil War in Greece
Cold War Extension: Political Change in the Middle East
Cold War Renewal: Domestic Turmoil in Africa
Rivalry, Interests, and Intervention: An Appraisal
Bibliography
Index