LEADER 03996nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910970498903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-60344-709-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000002286 035 $a(OCoLC)70767573 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary5003161 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000278855 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11225181 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278855 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10264494 035 $a(PQKB)10288662 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037699 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3037699 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr5003161 035 $a(BIP)42490606 035 $a(BIP)6729157 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000002286 100 $a20000717d2001 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDueling visions $eU.S. strategy toward Eastern Europe under Eisenhower /$fRonald R. Krebs 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCollege Station $cTexas A&M University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 171 pages) 225 1 $aForeign relations and the presidency ;$vno. 7 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-89096-968-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [157]-166) and index. 327 $aDUELING VISIONS -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- DUELING VISIONS -- THE ROOTS OF LIBERATION -- THE FINLAND MODEL -- ROLLING BACK THE BEAR -- STRATEGIC COMPETITION -- CONCLUSION. 330 $aThe presidential election of 1952, unlike most others before and since, was dominated by foreign policy, from the bloody stalemate of Korea to the deepening menace of international communism. During the campaign, Dwight Eisenhower and his spokesmen fed the public's imagination with their promises to liberate the peoples of Eastern Europe and created the impression that in office they would undertake an aggressive program to roll back Soviet influence across the globe. But time and again during the 1950s, Eisenhower and his advisers found themselves powerless to shape the course of events in Eastern Europe: they mourned their impotence but did little. In "Dueling Visions," Ronald R. Krebs argues that two different images of Eastern Europe's ultimate status competed to guide American policy during this period: Finlandization and rollback. Rollback, championed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Central Intelligence Agency, was synonymous with liberation as the public understood it--detaching Eastern Europe form all aspects of Soviet control. Surprisingly, the figure most often linked to liberation--Secretary of State John Foster Dulles --came to advocated a more subtle and measure policy that neither accepted the status quo nor pursued rollback. This American vision for the region held up the model of Finland, imagining a tier of states that would enjoy domestic autonomy and perhaps even democracy but whose foreign policy would toe the Soviet line. Krebs analyzes the conflicting logics and webs of assumptions underlying these dueling visions, and closely examines the struggles over these alternatives within the administration. Case studies of the American response to Stalin's death and to the Soviet--Yugoslav rapprochement reveal the eventual triumph of Finlandization both as vision and as policy. Finally, Krebs suggests the study's implications for international relations theory and contemporary foreign affairs. 410 0$aForeign relations and the presidency ;$vno. 7. 607 $aEurope, Eastern$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zEurope, Eastern 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1953-1961 676 $a327.73043/09/045 700 $aKrebs$b Ronald R.$f1974-$01860974 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970498903321 996 $aDueling visions$94466981 997 $aUNINA