Stepping Back: Nuclear Arms Control and the End of the Cold War FROM THE PUBLISHER
Vogele provides a contemporary history of the nuclear arms control negotiations of the 1980s, tracing these negotiations from their initiation at the beginning of the decade through the agreements that were reached by the end. Two chapters provide background on arms control efforts from the mid-1950s through 1980. The work is an analytical history of nuclear arms control bargaining processes, and an evaluation of the utility of alternative negotiation strategies for producing agreement. Thus, the history of these negotiations offers lessons for the continuing pursuit of arms control and other cooperative security arrangement in the post-Cold War international order.
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Vogele (international affairs, Harvard U.) examines in detail the arms-control negotiations between the US and the Soviet Union during the 1980s, arguing that agreements could be reached only through explicit negotiation and bargaining, and that such agreements were necessary (though not necessarily sufficient) for a fundamental change in the overall relations between countries. Particularly he queries how success emerged from Reagan's get- tough stand and Gorbachev's unilateral concessions, both of which violate the negotiation theory that bargaining strategies based on reciprocity work best. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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