1st Edition

Before and After the Cold War Using Past Forecasts to Predict the Future

By George H. Quester Copyright 2002
    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    The end of the Cold War came as good news for most of the world. No one had predicted the collapse of Communist rule for several decades. This book looks at how political scientists failed to predict such a quick resolution and ways in which the world might develop post Cold War.

    Chapter 1 Is the Nonproliferation Treaty Enough?; Chapter 2 Taiwan and Nuclear Proliferation; Chapter 3 Women in Combat; Chapter 4 America's Interest in Eastern Europe: Toward a Finlandization of the Warsaw Pact?; Chapter 5 Transboundary Television; Chapter 6 America and the Chinese: The Need for Continuing Ambiguity; Chapter 7 Some Barriers to Thinking About Conventional Defense; Chapter 8 Nuclear Pakistan and Nuclear India: Stable Deterrent or Proliferation Challenge?; Chapter 9 America's Response to the New World Dis(order); Chapter 10 The Gains and Costs of Non-Lethal Warfare; Chapter 11 Driving on the Right vs Driving on the Left: International Standards in Historical Perspective; Chapter 12 The Continuing Debate on Minimal Deterrence; Chapter 13 Some Conclusions;

    Biography

    George H. Quester