Getting it right, getting it wrong: the Soviet collapse revisited
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Michael Cox has released a provocative book that looks into the startling failure of sovietologists to anticipate the rapid collapse of communism in the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Cox blames this failure not on the discipline of sovietology itself but on the specialized orientation of researchers in the academe, a key reason why most sovietologists tended to focus on past events rather than on the present and the future. In his book, Cox includes essays from authors such as Peter Rutland and Hillel H. Ticktin that provide varied perspectives of the failure of sovietology.
Publication Name: International Affairs
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0020-5850
Year: 1999
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International history and international relations theory: a dialogue beyond the Cold War
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The author asserts that international history should be re-examined from a post-Cold War perspective, in the light of new archival resources available from the former communist countries. Traditional historians have explained the outbreak of the Cold War and the reasons for the US hegemony and Soviet opposition, without focusing on larger issues; theorists can contribute insight into other key issues such as the role ideology played in international relations and history.
Publication Name: International Affairs
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0020-5850
Year: 2000
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The Security Council: behind the scenes
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This article evaluates the management ability of the United Nations in handling complex peacekeeping missions by examining the UN intervention in Rwanda in 1994. The author focuses on the role of the Security Council, the Secretary General and senior officals as ambassadors addressing military issues; secrecy in the Council has become common, making decision-making unaccountable.
Publication Name: International Affairs
Subject: International relations
ISSN: 0020-5850
Year: 2001
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