Dominoes and Bandwagons : Strategic Beliefs and Great Power Competition in the Eurasian Rimland.
Title:
Dominoes and Bandwagons : Strategic Beliefs and Great Power Competition in the Eurasian Rimland.
Author:
Jervis, Robert.
ISBN:
9780195362763
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (312 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Domino Beliefs and Strategic Behavior -- 3. Alliance Formation in Southwest Asia: Balancing and Bandwagoning in Cold War Competition -- 4. Bandwagon Images in American Foreign Policy: Myth or Reality? -- 5. The Truman Administration and Global Responsibilities: The Birth of the Falling Domino Principle -- 6. Soviet Inferences from Their Victories in the Periphery: Visions of Resistance or Cumulating Gains? -- 7. Soviet Perceptions of American Foreign Policy After Afghanistan -- 8. The Soviet Decision to Withdraw from Afghanistan: Changing Strategic and Regional Images -- 9. Russian and Soviet Strategic Behavior in Asia -- 10. Conclusion -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Fearing the loss of Korea and Vietnam would touch off a chain reaction of other countries turning communist, the United States fought two major wars in the hinterlands of Asia. What accounts for such exaggerated alarm, and what were its consequences? Is a fear of the domino effect permanentlyrooted in the American strategic psyche, or has the United States now adopted a less alarmist approach? The essays in this book address these questions by examining domino thinking in United States and Soviet Cold War strategy, and in earlier historic settings. Combining theory and history inanalyzing issues relevant to current public policy, Dominoes and Bandwagons examines the extent to which domino fears were a rational response, a psychological reaction, or a tactic in domestic politics.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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