دانلود کتاب NATO and Western Perceptions of the Soviet Bloc: Alliance Analysis and Reporting, 1951-69

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
About the author
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
The object of NATO reports: the Cold War as a crisis of legitimization
NATO as a subject of study
1 A new look at the opponent, 1951–6
Testing the ground, 1951–2
Moving on to a comprehensive analysis, 1952–3
Studying the post-Stalin Soviet puzzle, 1953–5
Failure and reform in 1956
In retrospect: facing the riddles of de-Stalinization
2 The emergence of specialized studies: from the Three Wise Men to APAG, 1957–
62
The new machinery of NATO analysis
Khrushchev supreme: Soviet internal politics and the economy, 1957–62
The challenge of Soviet foreign policy and of détente
A new set of reports: the question mark of Eastern Europe
The Sino-Soviet relationship and its uncertainties
Concepts, interpretations and the global conflict: the ‘economic offensive’ of the ‘Sino-Soviet’ bloc
The rediscovery of comprehensive analysis: the emergence of APAG,1960–2
3 A more complex Cold War, 1963–7: doubt, optimism and the prospect of détente
Analysis during an era of intra-alliance tensions
A reliable enemy: Soviet politics and foreign policy
Economic malaise and political conservatism: the Soviet Union’s emerging dead end
Economic failures and ‘national roads’ in Eastern Europe
The Third World and the communist challenge
East–West relations: the intra-NATO debate and the road to détente,1962–7
4 On the road to détente, 1967–9: the Harmel Report, the Prague Spring and the dynamics of the Cold War
The Harmel Report and East–West relations
NATO analysis and the Prague Spring
Planning for détente: prospects of East–West relations, 1968–9
5 Conclusions
NATO analysis of the Soviet world: trying to understand the Other
NATO analysis and NATO: the search for the West
The Cold War: so near, and so far away
List of sources
Select bibliography
Index