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Matlock, Jack F.

Superpower illusions how myths and false ideologies led America astray, and how to return to reality / [electronic resource] : Jack F. Matlock, Jr. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010. - xviii, 344 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Myths and realities -- Framework diplomacy : Reagan's approach to Gorbachev -- Cleanup diplomacy and conclusions we can draw -- Regime change : the Soviet Union disintegrates -- A new world? (1992) -- The unipolar delusion (the 1990s) -- Hubris and its consequences (1993-2000) -- Asleep at the switch : 9/11 and the "War on Terror" -- Tar baby Iraq -- Ideology trumps reality (2001-2009) -- Course change -- An agenda, not a doctrine.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cold War--Influence.
Unilateral acts (International law)
Intervention (International law)
International cooperation.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Foreign relations--1989-
United States--Foreign relations--1981-1989.
United States--Foreign relations--Philosophy.
United States--Military policy.
United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: E895 / .M38 2010