Superpower competition and crisis prevention in the Third World

This 1990 publication puts forward the view that superpower competition in the Third World has always carried with it the likelihood of acute crises and that this likelihood may be reduced through a variety of tacit understandings orexplicit agreements between Washington and Moscow. As the central study from the Ford Foundation/Southampton University project on North/South security relations, the text brings together specialists from a variety of backgrounds to identify the roots of the competitive relationship in the 1970s and 1980s and then consider a range of specific regional conflicts in which both superpowershave been involved. Although superpower collaboration had increased, the long-term character and intentions of Soviet and American involvement in the ThirdWorld remained uncertain. In these circumstances it was particularly timely to reappraise past experience and assess the future prospects for crisis prevention in politically turbulent and potentially dangerous areas. INDICE: Note on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Superpower competition and crisis prevention in the Third World Roy Allison and Phil Williams; Part I. Superpower Competition: Objective and Instruments: 2. Soviet policies in theThird World: objectives , instruments and constraints Robert S. Litwak; 3, USpolicies in the Third World: objective, instruments and constraints Derek Leebaert; 4. US and Soviet maritime rivalry in the Third World Roger W. Barnett; 5. Superpower arms transfers to the Third World Joanna Spear and Stuart Croft;Part II. Superpower Competition and Regional Conflict: 6. Superpower interests in Third areas Alexander L. George; 7. The superpowers and the Middle East Robert O. Freedman; 8. The superpowers and the Gulf Shahram Chubin; 9. The superpowers and Southwest Asia Roy Allison; 10. The superpowers and Central America and the Caribbean Peter Shearman; 11. The superpowers and Southern Africa Geoff R. Berridge; 12. The superpowers and Southeast Asia Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu; 13. Crisis prevention: patterns and prospects Roy Allison and Phil Williams; Appendices; Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-521-12589-5
• Editorial: Cambridge University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 296
• Fecha Publicación: 14/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés