Synopses & Reviews
Surviving the Millennium traces the rise of the U.S.-Soviet antagonism from its roots in the U.S.-tsarist Russian relationship and critically reexamines U.S. containment strategy during the Cold War. The book then focuses on the new U.S. and Russian interrelationship with Germany, Japan, China, the European Community, and other key actors such as Iran, Turkey, India, the Koreas, and Ukraine. Despite the end of the Cold War, Gardner contends that U.S.-Russian relations are still characterized by games of encirclement and counter-encirclement; that the two powers have yet to move beyond detente and forge a full-fledged entente.
Synopsis
Examines the ongoing political and strategic relationship between the United States and Russia, in the context of American global strategy.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-250) and index.
About the Author
HALL GARDNER is Professor and Chair of the Department of International Affairs and Politics at the American University of Paris.
Table of Contents
Introduction: US-Soviet/Russian Relations in the Twilight Zone
Five Dimensions of Double Containment
Strategic Leveraging, Geohistorical Analogies, and The Question of Global Peace
Origins and Dynamics of the US-Soviet Antagonism
An Increasingly Perforated Iron Curtain
Not-So-Inadvertent Roll Back
US Economic Atrophy, Soviet Collapse, and the Rise of Global Geoeconomic Rivalry
Nuclear and Conventional Arms Rivalries and the Question of Parity
The US-Russian Courtship (1991-??)
Toward a New Global Concert? or End of the US-Russian Courtship?
Selected Bibliography
Index