Synopses & Reviews
The cold war came to a grinding halt during the astounding developments of 1989-1991. The Berlin Wall fell, Eastern European countries freed themselves from Soviet domination, and the Soviet Union itself disintegrated after witnessing a failed coup presumably aimed at restoring a communist dictatorship. Suddenly the “evil empire” was no more, and U.S. foreign policy was forever changed. This volume explores the revisions to a variety of bureaucratic institutions and policy areas in the wake of these political upheavals.
Review
“Editors Randall B. Ripley and James M. Lindsay have defied the norm by bringing the work of more than a dozen authors together into a coherent text. . . . The book has great utility as a supplemental paperback for teaching U.S. foreign policy formulation.”
—Perspectives on Political Science
Review
“The end of the Cold War is the great defining event of international relations in our time. Pundits have discussed it in almost millennial terms, and analysts have attributed to it nearly as many phenomena as are said to have been caused by El Niño. . . . Randall Ripley and James Lindsay ask their contributors to assess the degree of real change that this scrambling of the fixed point of international life for four decades caused in the substance of and the processes for making American foreign policy.”
—David Clinton
Review
“Insightful and comprehensive. . . . Must reading for those who wonder why this nation is so confused and unsure of itself as it seeks to define its proper role in the world.”
—Lawrence J. Korb
Synopsis
This volume explores the revisions to a variety of U.S. bureaucratic institutions and policy areas in the wake of the political upheaval following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-375) and index.
About the Author
Randell B. Ripley is professor of political science and dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Ohio State University.
James M. Lindsay is professor of political science at the University of Iowa.