The New Detente: Rethinking East-West RelationsMary Kaldor, Gerard Holden, Richard A. Falk United Nations University Press, 1989 - 420 pages Soviet foreign policy under Gorbachev and revolution in the Third |
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Page 32 - Governments resolved to maintain adequate military strength and political solidarity to deter aggression and other forms of pressure and to defend the territory of member countries if aggression should occur...
Page 112 - We shall not cease from exploration And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
Page 33 - Military security and a policy of detente are not contradictory but complementary. Collective defence is a stabilizing factor in world politics. It is the necessary condition for effective policies directed towards a greater relaxation of tensions. The way to peace and stability in Europe rests in particular on the use of the Alliance constructively in the interest of detente.
Page 250 - See Christopher D. Jones, Soviet Influence in Eastern Europe: Political Autonomy and the Warsaw Pact (New York: Praeger, 1981).
Page 183 - The reasons for this include the internationalization of world economic ties, the comprehensive scope of the scientific and technological revolution, the essentially novel role played by the mass media, the state of the earth's resources, the common environmental danger, and the crying social problems of the developing world which affect us all. The main reason, however, is the problem of human survival. This problem is now with us because the development of nuclear weapons and the threatening prospect...
Page 33 - Moreover, the situation of instability and uncertainty still precludes a balanced reduction of military forces. Under these conditions, the Allies will maintain as necessary a suitable military capability to assure the balance of forces, thereby creating a climate of stability, security and confidence. In this climate the Alliance can carry out its second function, to pursue the search for progress towards a more stable relationship in which the underlying political issues can be solved.
Page 203 - And rarely has one of the victorious powers come to dominate the world to the extent that the United States has. The United States must continue to support and lead a powerful coalition of forces to contain the Soviet Union, but it will have to do so in an era vastly different from the period of the coalition's creation. We have won the ideological war; we are close to winning the geopolitical contest in the Third World, except for the Middle East. We long ago won the economic competition. As James...
Page 22 - Robert O. Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984); Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition (Boston: Little Brown, 1978); and Stephen D. Krasner, ed., International Regimes (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983).
Page 200 - Gorbachev has said that under the present circumstances it is difficult to reconcile the interests of the conflicting sides. . . . However, we do not at all want the process of working towards a settlement, or the very goals of this process, in some way to impinge upon the interests of the United States or the West. 42 He has also said: The Soviet Union does not bear any hostility towards Israel in principle.
Page 199 - To me personally, it is quite obvious that much of what we call new political thinking manifested itself internationally for the first time in relations between the Soviet Union and India.
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