Dismantling the Cold War

Dismantling the Cold War
Author: John M. Shields
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780262691987

The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program has since authorized more than $1.5 billion for a wide array of weapons destruction, demilitarization, nuclear security, and nonproliferation activities in the Newly Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union.

Dismantling The Cold War Economy

Dismantling The Cold War Economy
Author: Ann R. Markusen
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1993-07-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780465016655

A comprehensive reassessment of the military-industrial complex. Based on extensive interviews with defence industry executives, Pentagon officials and community and union leaders, this book shows in detail how Cold War technologies have distorted and drained the economy.

By Fire and Ice

By Fire and Ice
Author: David A. Koplow
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789056995607

The Chemical Weapons Convention is a recently signed treaty that requires the dismantling and destruction of the massive stockpiles that many countries (most notably the United States and Russia) have built over the years. However, no simple or agreed-upon means exist to accomplish this admirable goal of the removal of chemical weapons. National security experts assert that the country, and the world as a whole, will be better off if chemical weapons are eliminated, while environmental experts assert that there is no way to accomplish this ambitious plan while conforming to existing national and community health and safety standards. Koplow examines the forced merger between the national security and the environmental policy makers, recognizing the necessity but warning of potential and actual conflicts in missions. Environmentalism and arms control are two crucial sectors of American and international public life that have long existed in segregated "parallel universes." Now these groups must

Dismantling Tyranny

Dismantling Tyranny
Author: Ilan Berman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780742549036

When a totalitarian group seizes power, one of the first institutions it creates is a secret political police. Since the birth of modern totalitarianism, in country after country, secret political police have been the predominant instruments of power, used to consolidate power, neutralize the opposition, and erect a one-party state. Yet, when these same totalitarian regimes have liberalized or collapsed, the secret political police have often managed to survive and even remain relevant. Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes provides a groundbreaking exploration of this survival tendency in seven formerly communist regimes in the former Soviet Union and Latin America - and the lessons these transformations hold for future democratic revolutions. But Dismantling Tyranny is also much more: it is a guidebook designed to empower, inform, and guide future transitions toward democracy for those political leaders with the initiative, and courage, to embark upon such a visionary path. Published in cooperation with the American Foreign Policy Council.

Dismantling the West

Dismantling the West
Author: Janusz Bugajski
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 1597976393

Explores the evidence for Russia's long-term imperialist ambitions toward the transatlantic alliance.

A Wall of Our Own

A Wall of Our Own
Author: Paul M. Farber
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2020-02-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469655098

The Berlin Wall is arguably the most prominent symbol of the Cold War era. Its construction in 1961 and its dismantling in 1989 are broadly understood as pivotal moments in the history of the last century. In A Wall of Our Own, Paul M. Farber traces the Berlin Wall as a site of pilgrimage for American artists, writers, and activists. During the Cold War and in the shadow of the Wall, figures such as Leonard Freed, Angela Davis, Shinkichi Tajiri, and Audre Lorde weighed the possibilities and limits of American democracy. All were sparked by their first encounters with the Wall, incorporated their reflections in books and artworks directed toward the geopolitics of division in the United States, and considered divided Germany as a site of intersection between art and activism over the respective courses of their careers. Departing from the well-known stories of Americans seeking post–World War II Paris for their own self-imposed exile or traveling the open road of the domestic interstate highway system, Farber reveals the divided city of Berlin as another destination for Americans seeking a critical distance. By analyzing the experiences and cultural creations of "American Berliner" artists and activists, Farber offers a new way to view not only the Wall itself but also how the Cold War still structures our thinking about freedom, repression, and artistic resistance on a global scale.

Dismantling the Empire

Dismantling the Empire
Author: Chalmers Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2010-08-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1429964049

The author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy reflects on America's waning power in a masterful collection of essays In his prophetic book Blowback, published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home. Now, in a brilliant series of essays written over the last three years, Johnson measures that price and the resulting dangers America faces. Our reliance on Pentagon economics, a global empire of bases, and war without end is, he declares, nothing short of "a suicide option." Dismantling the Empire explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama's Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, our bad behavior in other countries, our ill-fought wars, and our capitulation to a military that has taken ever more control of the federal budget. There is, he proposes, only one way out: President Obama must begin to dismantle the empire before the Pentagon dismantles the American Dream. If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best: delivering both a warning and an urgent prescription for a remedy.

Beyond the Divide

Beyond the Divide
Author: Simo Mikkonen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782388672

Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common. This volume presents an alternative perspective by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of the divide. Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there were institutions, organizations, and individuals who brought people from the East and the West together, joined by shared professions, ideas, and sometimes even through marriage. The volume aims at proving that the post-WWII histories of Western and Eastern Europe were entangled by looking at cases involving France, Denmark, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, and others.

The Last Days of Stalin

The Last Days of Stalin
Author: Joshua Rubenstein
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300192223

Monografie over de laatste maanden in het leven van Stalin en de periode daarna.