Gorbachev's Gamble: Soviet Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War
240Gorbachev's Gamble: Soviet Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War
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ISBN-13: | 9780745643465 |
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Publisher: | Polity Press |
Publication date: | 01/29/2019 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 240 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d) |
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Table of Contents
The Gorbachev Years: A Chronology viiPreface and Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
1 Preparing the Change 9
Dual-Track Diplomacy 9
The Military-Diplomatic Complex 17
‘Moles’ in the Corridors of Power 24
Cracks in the Monolith 34
2 Ambitions and Illusions of the ‘New Political Thinking’ 43
Training for Leadership 43
First Exercises in Foreign Policy 52
Building the New Team 58
Summits in Paris and Geneva 62
A ‘Tail’ of Soviet Diplomacy? 66
‘New Thinking’ or Ideology Revisited? 70
From Philosophy to Politics 75
Reykjavik – ‘the Failed Summit’? 80
‘New Political Thinking’: Rules and Tools 86
3 Breaking the Ice 93
Untying the Reykjavik ‘Package’ 93
Withdrawing from Afghanistan and Retiring from the ‘Third World’ 100
‘Abandoning’ Eastern Europe 114
Destroying the Berlin Wall 131
4 Up to the Peak and Down the Slope 163
Gorbachev’s ‘Anti-Fulton’ Speech at the UN 163
1989 – the Year of ‘the Great Turn’ 169
Malta – a Belated Triumph 176
On the Other Bank of the Rubicon 184
The War in the Gulf and Shevardnadze’s
Resignation 191
The G7 in London: The Summit of a Last (Lost) Chance 200
5 The Winds of Change 214
Notes 234
Bibliography 257
Index 261