Autore	Mayers David Allan <1951->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (viii, 335 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	327.73047
Soggetto topico	Ambassadors - United States - History - 20th century Ambassadors - Soviet Union - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-52556-8 0-19-536179-2 1-4294-1091-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; United States Chiefs of Mission in St. Petersburg and Moscow; Introduction; I: Before Moscow; 1. St. Petersburg and the U.S. Diplomatic Tradition; 2. From Comity to Estrangement; 3. War and Revolution; II: In Stalin's Time; 4. Preparing for Moscow; 5. Purges and the Failure of Collective Security; 6. Fragile Coalition; 7. Neither War Nor Peace; III: Great Power Rivalry; 8. After Stalin; 9. Controlled Rivalry; 10. Collapse and the Art of Diplomacy; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910451261203321

Autore	Toro Hardy Alfredo <1950->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (220 pages)
Disciplina	327.73047
ISBN	981-16-9503-2 981-16-9502-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 The Brief History of the End of History -- What Had Happened? -- The Reform that Triggered the Implosion -- The Landmark year of 1989 -- Divisions Within the Communist Party -- The Coup and the Dissolution of the Soviet Union -- The End of History -- Global Hegemony -- References -- 3 From Hiding Strengths to Assertive Showcasing -- A Fruitful and Resilient Agreement -- Reform and Opening Up -- Succession and Implications -- Inflection Point -- A New Boldness -- Paradoxically -- Xi Jinping -- Hard-Liner -- America's Reasons -- Collision Course -- The New Cold War -- References -- 4 From Ideology to Efficiency -- America's Mythology -- A Crusading Foreign Policy -- Ideological Confrontation -- A New Ideological Contest? -- The Populist Irruption -- Trump's Arrival -- Eroding Democracy -- The New Republicans -- The Road to Nowhere -- Efficiency as the Catchword -- Can America Compete? -- Unbridled Problems -- Covid and the Reagan's Revolution in Reverse -- References -- 5 From Hegemony to the Squandering of Alliances -- America's Led International Architecture -- Soviet Bloc and Non-Alignment -- America's Alliance System -- The Erosion of America's Hegemony -- Neoconservatives -- Obama's Failed Attempt -- Trump's "Dog Eat Dog" Foreign Policy -- Money, Money, Money -- More Than What America's Allies Can Handle -- Beijing-Moscow: Strategic Partnership or Axis? -- Why Did Russia Approach China? -- Ukraine and Crimea -- China's Revisionist Multilateral Building -- Cooperative Multilateralism -- Belt and Road -- Other Initiatives -- Reputational Problems -- A Big Magnet -- References -- 6 From Strategic Consistency to Zigzagging -- Rules of the Game -- Conceptual Bases -- The Marshall Plan -- Containment. Johnson, Vietnam, and the Foreign Policy Crisis -- America's Divides -- A Fractured Society -- Between Dispersion and Bashing -- A Focused China -- Xi's Autocracy -- References -- 7 From Economic High Ground to Economic Lowland -- A Vulnerable and Hyper Militarized Society -- Lagging Technology and Escalating Compromises -- Moscow's Nightmare -- A Different Game Altogether -- Middle Classes and Innovation -- Outspending, Outsmarting -- America's Complacency -- Concentrating Versus Diffusing -- References -- 8 From Reasonable Containment to Unattainable Containment -- Containment -- Moving to the Third World -- Anomalies -- Kennedy and the Vietnam Floodgates -- Spectacular Triumph -- Replicating Containment -- Distorting but Not Abandoning -- Following Suit -- Gone Are the Days -- The Lack of Geopolitical Feasibility -- Taiwan -- References -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- Bibliography -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910743214803321

Autore	Williams, William Appleman
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York ; Toronto : Rinehart, ©1952
Descrizione fisica	367 p. ; 24 cm
Disciplina	327.73047
Soggetto non controllato	Stati Uniti d'America - Relazioni con la Russia - 1781-1949
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-990008746730403321

Autore	Crockatt, Richard
Edizione	[3. ristampa 2009]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Roma : Salerno Editrice, 1997
Descrizione fisica	560 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Disciplina	327.73047
Collana	Periscopio
Soggetto non controllato	Stati Uniti d'America e Unione Sovietica - 1941-1991
ISBN	88-8402-213-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	ita
Record Nr.	UNINA-990008715550403321