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The Detente Deception examines the competition between the U.S.-led Western bloc and the Soviet bloc in the less developed world during the final years of Detente. Rivero assesses whether or not the Soviet bloc pushed for strategic gains in the Third World and whether this contributed to the U.S. decision to abandon Detente in 1979. This view is articulated by many acclaimed scholars such as Stephen Walt (1992), John Gaddis (1997), and Vladislav Zubok (2007). They make the case that during the final years of Detente and throughout the 1980s, U.S. policy in places such as Nicaragua and Angola was a calculated response to Soviet aggression in the less-developed world. This book challenges this position as the quantitative evidence points to U.S. aggression. Not only did the Western bloc push to maintain dominance over the Third World, archival evidence also suggests the US made significant efforts in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan during the final years of Detente to dismantle the Soviet bloc.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government International relations

• Full title: Detente Deception
• Subtitle: Soviet and Western bloc Competition and the Subversion of Cold War Peace
• Author: Douglas Rivero
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 144
• EAN: 9780761860433
• ISBN: 0761860436
• ID: 04683109
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Weight: 386 g
• Dimensions: 239 × 163 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. December 2012

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