University Press of America
Pages: 144
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Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7618-6043-3 • Hardback • December 2012 • $77.00 • (£59.00)
978-0-7618-6044-0 • eBook • December 2012 • $73.00 • (£56.00)
Douglas Rivero is chair and assistant professor of political science and international relations at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. His areas of specialty are American foreign policy, the Cold War, and international political economy. Dr. Rivero obtained his Ph.D. in political science from Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida.
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Abstract
I.Introduction and Methodology
II.The Soviet Aggression Thesis and its Critics
III.Soviet and Western Bloc Foreign Aid to the Less Developed World
IV.The Soviet Response in the Third World
V.The U.S. Response to the Soviet Threat in the Third World
VI.Consequences of Détente: Collapse of USSR
VII.Conclusion and Final Thoughts
Rivero offers a powerful analysis of US foreign policy during the final stages of Détente. His analysis of U.S. and Soviet archives is outstanding.
— David Gibbs Ph.D, professor of history, University of Arizona and author of First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
An eye-opening and penetrating examination of the Cold War.
— Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago; author of The Origins of the Korean War
Lucid and incisive. The Détente Deception is an important inquiry into U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. Rivero’s book is distinctive in its theoretical and empirical sweep.
— Ronald Cox, associate professor of political science, Florida International University, author of Power and Profits: US Policy in Central America.