Changing Games, Changing Strategies: Critical Investigations in Security - Couverture rigide

Fierke, K. M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719054753 ISBN 13 : 9780719054754

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This work provides a look at the end of the Cold War and consequent changes in East-West security relations. The central question underlying the book is how a range of policies, previously thought to be unrealistic, became possible. Combining a post-Wittgensteinian approach to language, with insights from the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and Habermas, the book explores the relationship between meaning and practice in an analysis of the contradictions of the late Cold War and post-Cold War world. The analysis demonstrates that developments over this 20 year period cannot be seen in isolation; Primakov's acts cannot be understood without Gorbachev; Reagan and Gorbachev's acts cannot be understood without the independent social movements or initiatives in both blocs; nor these movements without Helsinki. The study calls into question the conventional wisdom that the end of the Cold War was a case of "the West winning." Rather than a victory of one side over the other, the end of the Cold War represents a transition from conflict to dialogue and co-operation in a whole Europe, a conclusion which has consequences for the way we think about the future of East-West security relations against the background of NATO expansion.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719054753
• ISBN 13: 9780719054754
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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