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Lebow and Stein make their case by examining two crises of the cold war: the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and 1973 the Arab-Israeli War. In 1973, the US tried to prevent the Soviet Union from intervening in the Arab-Israeli War by alerting its strategic and conventional forces worldwide. The Nile on eBay   FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE   We All Lost the Cold War by Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, this title casts new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. They conclude that the strategy of deterrence prolonged rather than ended the conflict between the superpowers. Notes They've got it just right. It is a dangerous conclusion that the West won the Cold War. The argument that one side won the Cold War is mistaken. We all lost the Cold War, particularly the USA and the USSR. We all won by ending it. That is the scientific conclusion. -- Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev Back Cover "They've got it just right. It is a dangerous conclusion that the West won the Cold War. The argument that one side won the Cold War is mistaken. We all lost the Cold War, particularly the USA and the USSR. We all won by ending it. That is the scientific conclusion." --Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev Flap "They've got it just right. It is a dangerous conclusion that the West won the Cold War. The argument that one side won the Cold War is mistaken. We all lost the Cold War, particularly the USA and the USSR. We all won by ending it. That is the scientific conclusion."-- Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev Author Biography Richard Ned Lebow is Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Janice Gross Stein is Harrison Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation at the University of Toronto. Table of Contents PrefaceAbbreviationsCh. 1Introduction3Pt. 1The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962Ch. 2Missiles to Cuba: Foreign-Policy Motives19Ch. 3Missiles to Cuba: Domestic Politics51Ch. 4Why Did Khrushchev Miscalculate?67Ch. 5Why Did the Missiles Provoke a Crisis?94Ch. 6The Crisis and Its Resolution110Pt. 2The Crisis in the Middle East, October 1973Ch. 7The Failure to Prevent War, October 1973149Ch. 8The Failure to Limit the War: The Soviet and American Airlifts182Ch. 9The Failure to Stop the Fighting198Ch. 10The Failure to Avoid Confrontation226Ch. 11The Crisis and Its Resolution261Pt. 3Deterrence, Compellence, and the Cold WarCh. 12How Crises Are Resolved291Ch. 13Deterrence and Crisis Management324Ch. 14Nuclear Threats and Nuclear Weapons348Postscript. Deterrence and the End of the Cold War369Notes377Appendix523Name Index527General Index535 Review One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994 "The orthodoxy ... is that deterrence worked and the arms race defeated the Soviet Union. Hitherto there has been little dissent from those positions, apart from those 'revisionist' historians who merely turned the whole orthodoxy on its head... Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein are not revisionists in that sense. They are far too sensible for emotional nonsense of that kind. Yet their work is quite as unorthodox, probably as shocking to the closed corporation of Cold War 'scholars' but much more surprising than that of the Chomskyans."--Godfrey Hodgson, The Independent (London) "They've got it just right. It is a dangerous conclusion that the West won the Cold War. The argument that one side won the Cold War is mistaken. We all lost the Cold War, particularly the USA and the USSR. We all won by ending it."--Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev Promotional They've got it just right. It is a dangerous conclusion that the West won the Cold War. The argument that one side won the Cold War is mistaken. We all lost the Cold War, particularly the USA and the USSR. We all won by ending it. That is the scientific conclusion. -- Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev Kirkus US Review In a well-articulated, arresting argument, Lebow (Political Science/Pittsburgh) and Stein (Political Science/Toronto) assert that the conventional wisdom that the West won the cold war is mistaken, and that military spending and geopolitical rivalry have exhausted the US and the countries of the former USSR, with implications that continue to haunt us today. Lebow and Stein make their case by examining two crises of the cold war: the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and 1973 the Arab-Israeli War. In both cases, the authors persuasively argue, the crisis was caused by politicians playing the game of "deterrence." In Cuba, the American threat to use nuclear weapons was an escalation of the crisis; once the superpowers confronted each other, they needed to compromise in order to resolve the impasse (the problem was resolved when both governments agreed to remove missiles). In 1973, the US tried to prevent the Soviet Union from intervening in the Arab-Israeli War by alerting its strategic and conventional forces worldwide. Here, the crisis was resolved when the Soviet Union declined to respond to the alert. The authors argue, based on newly available evidence, that far from deterring the Soviet Union, the US worldwide alert actually might have escalated the crisis; the Soviet Union never had any intention of actually intervening, and a large group in the Kremlin argued that the it should respond by alerting its own forces. After examining how compromise and moderation resolved crises caused by deterrence theorists, Lebow and Stein contend that the nuclear arms race, far from preventing WW III, actually exacerbated superpower tensions and review evidence that Reagan's expansion of defense spending after 1981 delayed rather than accelerated the process of reform in the Soviet Union, which occurred for reasons largely unrelated to the superpower rivalry, and wasted resources urgently needed for domestic purposes. The authors conclude that deterrence prolonged rather than ended the cold war. An intelligent and provocative examination of the legacy of the cold war. (Kirkus Reviews) Prizes Runner-up for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1994 Long Description Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. They conclude that the strategy of deterrence prolonged rather than ended the conflict between the superpowers. Review Quote "They've got it just right. It is a dangerous conclusion that the West won the Cold War. The argument that one side won the Cold War is mistaken. We all lost the Cold War, particularly the USA and the USSR. We all won by ending it. That is the scientific conclusion." --Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev Details ISBN069101941X Publisher Princeton University Press Series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Language English ISBN-10 069101941X ISBN-13 9780691019413 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1995 Imprint Princeton University Press Place of Publication New Jersey Country of Publication United States Pages 566 Illustrations black & white illustrations Short Title WE ALL LOST THE COLD WAR REV/E Edition Description Revised Translated from English DOI 10.1604/9780691019413 UK Release Date 1995-07-23 AU Release Date 1995-07-23 NZ Release Date 1995-07-23 US Release Date 1995-07-23 Author Janice Gross Stein Publication Date 1995-07-23 Alternative 9780691033082 DEWEY 327.7304709045 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICYNo questions asked, 30 day returns! 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