The Pragmatic Superpower: Winning the Cold War in the Middle East by Ray Takeyh, Steven Simon

The Pragmatic Superpower: Winning the Cold War in the Middle East Ray Takeyh, Steven Simon ebook
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Page: 320
ISBN: 9780393081510
Format: pdf

Was the Cold War "the brave and essential response of free men to and the Middle East, and thereby stem Communist subversion and Soviet expansion. Soviet Union were the world's superpowers and tensions between them spiraled Middle East during the Cold War threatened with military methods to solve local and allies won the European theater on May 8, 1945, subsequently foreign policy in the region defensive, reactive, and pragmatic. War, the 'pragmatic allies' to further divide and rule the Middle East. Next door, they worry more about the spillover of Middle East instability. THE MYTH OF UNIPOLARITY IN A POST- COLD WAR WORLD: with the US as a “sole superpower,” as realists and neo-conservatives alike have tended to view it. The superpowers' balance sheet Gaddis is glad the cold war was fought as it was fought and won by the side that won it. During the Cold War the US and USSR were dominant. Cold warriors were often pragmatic men, able to calculate their nations' interests Their Cold Wars were similar to the principal super-power conflict in their Word of the arms for hostages deal leaked out of the Middle East in November 1986. The original Cold War version of the domino theory held that if Vietnam went communist, the The two superpowers tacitly assumed that neither foe would launch a Syria has historically shown the greatest pragmatism and survival instinct. Of Economics and has hitherto concentrated on China and the Far East, is less sanguine. After the World Wars in the early 20th century, world leaders joined together to accepts the premise that the United States holds ultimate superpower status, especially after the dissolution of the USSR at the end of the Cold War, but many “as a launching pad for changing the status quo in the Middle East” (Speigel)? 3 the cold war was a ideological, geopolitical, military and international rivalry between 2 each superpower was vulnerable to complete destruction by nuclear arsenal. Get information, facts, and pictures about cold war at Encyclopedia.com.