Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War (Oxford Studies in International History) - Image 1

£42.91

Oxford University Press Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War (Oxford Studies in International History)

Name: Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War (Oxford Studies in International History)
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 38.38 GBP
Availability: InStock

World History

Price History & Forecast

Last 26 days • 26 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 26 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £38 (16 days, 61.5%)

Price range: £38 - £43

Price levels: 3 different prices over 26 days

Description

The European and American dimensions of Mikhail Gorbachev's foreign policy captured the imagination of contemporary observers and, later, historians. The collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall were the grand events that marked the European finale of the Cold War. The Cold War ended differently in Asia, where there was no easy closure, no great fanfare, and little credit awarded for changing the world. Yet Gorbachev was fascinated by Asia and in his early years in power, he addressed the subject of Asia's rise and the importance of Soviet engagement with the region. He spent years strategizing his Asian foreign policies and attempting to build Soviet relationships with its regional neighbors, particularly alongside China. In the end, Russia was never accepted by Europe as part of the West, but it also failed in its efforts to become a regional power. With the end of the Cold War, Russia was marginalized in Asia, politically and economically, unable to fit into the changed environment of international affairs while adhering to the basic principles that made it a superpower. In this broad-ranging and deeply researched second book, Sergey Radchenko gracefully narrates and analyzes the end of the Cold War in Asia. Among the relationships he addresses is the Sino-Soviet normalization, which emerged in response to the difficulties both sides had with the United States; the rise and fall of the Soviet-Indian alliance, which Gorbachev envisioned as central to offsetting US alliances in the region; failed Soviet efforts to mend fences with Japan and to tap into Japanese capital to develop Siberia and the Far East; Soviet efforts to influence relations between Vietnam and Cambodia; and the USSR's decision to normalize relations with South Korea after North Korea provided resistant to political reform. Radchenko sheds new light on the actions of Gorbachev, Deng Xiaoping, Margaret Thatcher, Boris Yeltsin, and George H.W. Bush, among others. Based on archival research in Russia, China, Mongolia, India, the United States, Britain, numerous European countries, among other places, and interviews with former policy makers in a dozen countries, Radchenko has crafted a book that will appeal broadly to scholars, students, and general readers. Cold War historians; historians of Japan, Korea, China, and India; international relations scholars and political scientists will comprise the academic market.

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0199938776
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 20 February 2014
Listed Since: 23 April 2013

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War (Oxford Studies in International History)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe)

A Short History of Sino-Soviet Relations, 1917–1991 (China Connections)

The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years

Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World

Out of the Cold: The Cold War and Its Legacy

Macmillan International Relations and Asia's Northern Tier

Routledge - US Foreign Policy and Economic Reform in Three Giants

Beyond the Divide: Entangled Histories of Cold War Europe

Armageddon Averted: Soviet Collapse since 1970 Updated Edition

Routledge - Russia's International Relations in the Twentieth Century

New Perspectives on the End of the Cold War: Unexpected Transformations? (Cold War History)

The Cold War After Stalin's Death: A Missed Opportunity for Peace? (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series)

Routledge War Plans and Alliances in the Cold War Book

Practicing Public Diplomacy: A Cold War Odyssey: 5 (Explorations in Culture and International History, 5)

The End of the Cold War and The Third World: New Perspectives on Regional Conflict (Cold War History)

The End of the Cold War and The Third World: New Perspectives on Regional Conflict (Cold War History)

Ending the Cold War: Interpretations, Causation and the Study of International Relations (New Visions in Security)

The Break-up of the Soviet Union (Adelphi Papers Reissue Hardback)

The Demise of the Soviet Union: Analysing the Collapse of a State (Routledge Revivals)

A Closer Look at Russia and its Influence in the World (Russian Political, Economic, and Security Issues)

Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation

Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959-1973: A New History (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series)

Destined Statecraft: Eurasian Small Power Politics and Strategic Cultures in Geopolitical Shifts

The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series)