The détente Deception : Soviet and Western Bloc Competition and the Subversion of Cold War Peace
ISBN: 9780761860440
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University Press of America, Incorporated
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Subjects: History; Political Science;

The Détente Deception examines the competition between the U.S.-led Western bloc and the Soviet bloc in the less developed world during the final years of Détente. Rivero assesses whether or not the Soviet bloc pushed for strategic gains in the Third World and whether this contributed to the U.S. decision to abandon Détente in 1979. This view is articulated by many acclaimed scholars such as Stephen Walt (1992), John Gaddis (1997), and Vladislav Zubok (2007). They make the case that during the final years of Détente and throughout the 1980s, U.S. policy in places such as Nicaragua and Angola was a calculated response to Soviet aggression in the less-developed world.

This book challenges this position as the quantitative evidence points to U.S. aggression. Not only did the Western bloc push to maintain dominance over the Third World, archival evidence also suggests the US made significant efforts in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan during the final years of Détente to dismantle the Soviet bloc.

Douglas Rivero is chair and assistant professor of political science and international relations at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. His areas of specialty are American foreign policy, the Cold War, and international political economy. Dr. Rivero obtained his Ph.D. in political science from Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida.


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