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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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Bloomsbury academic collections. History and politics in the 20th century : international relations
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Bloomsbury academic collections. History and politics in the 20th century : international relations.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Part One: Context; Introduction; Chapter 1: Social theory and security discourse; 'Postmodernism' and global crisis; Social theory: discourse; Social theory: ideology and hegemony; The hegemony of security discourse; Reading security discourse; Chapter 2: Discourse and otherness; The Other: identity, difference; The Other: time, space, geopolitics; The Other and world order; Europeans and others; Otherness and US geopolitical discourse; Chapter 3: Security and geopolitics. |
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Political theory, states and securityGeopolitics, space and power; Classical geopolitics; Geopolitics and containment; Geopolitical discourse; Chapter 4: Threat discourse; Containment militarism and the 'Soviet threat'; 'Common Sense and the Common Danger'; 'What is the Soviet Union Up To?'; CPD discourse; Part Two: Text; Introduction; Chapter 5: Sovietology; Sovietology and totalitarianism; CPD Sovietology; Soviet-US differences; Geography and patrimonialism; Militarism and Soviet foreign policy; Totalitarianism rehabilitated; Chapter 6: Power politics; International relations and realism. |
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Detente and appeasementThe rationale for realism; Realism and geopolitics; Realism as geopolitics; Chapter 7: Geopolitics; Containment and geopolitics; Geopolitics and superpower rivalry; Mackinder updated; The geopolitics of Soviet Empire; The ideology of geopolitics; Chapter 8: Nuclear strategy; Strategy and deterrence; The CPD against SALT; Soviet war-fighting strategy; 1. Pre-emption; 2. Quantitative superiority; 3. Counterforce targeting; 4. Combined-arms operations; 5. Defence; Sovietology and strategy; SALT, geopolitics and strategy; The theory of victory. |
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Nuclear war-fighting strategies: NUTS to DEADPart Three: Contra-text; Introduction; Chapter 9: The geopolitics of security discourse; CPD geographs; The CPD and the Reagan administration; Space, security, hegemony; Chapter 10: Critical geopolitics; Discourses of war and peace; Political space and dissent discourse; Challenging hegemony: dealignment; Challenging hegemony: security and development; Critical geopolitics; Bibliography; Index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Committee on the Present Danger (U.S.)
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Committee on the Present Danger (U.S.) |
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1977-1981.
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United States. |
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International relations. |
Chronological Term |
1977-1981 |
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1981-1989.
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Chronological Term |
1981-1989 |
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World politics -- 1975-1985.
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World politics. |
Chronological Term |
1975-1985 |
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Cold War.
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Cold War (1945-1989) |
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects. |
Chronological Term |
1975-1989 |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Dalby, Simon. Creating the second Cold War. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 1474291244 9781474291248 (OCoLC)946693696 |
ISBN |
9781474291255 (electronic book) |
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1474291252 (electronic book) |
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9781474291248 |
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1474291244 |
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