The Cold War is over, yet many attitudes and analyses typical of the period persisted in the strategic thinking of the Great Powers. In this brilliantly original study, Simon Dalby uses the conceptual tools of geopolitical analysis to uncover the essence of American strategic discourse. Focussing on the period of the late 1970s, he shows how Washington pressure groups, political organisations and, in particular, the Committee on the Present Danger, recreated a language of confrontation that deeply influenced Western attitudes towards the Soviet Union in ways that continue to shape foreign policy.
The Cold War is over, yet many attitudes and analyses typical of the period persisted in the strategic thinking of the Great Powers. In this brilliantly original study, Simon Dalby uses the conceptual tools of geopolitical analysis to uncover the essence of American strategic discourse. Focussing on the period of the late 1970s, he shows how Washington pressure groups, political organisations and, in particular, the Committee on the Present Danger, recreated a language of confrontation that deeply influenced Western attitudes towards the Soviet Union in ways that continue to shape foreign policy.
Preface
Part I – Context
Introduction
1. Social Theory and Security Discourse
2. Discourse and Otherness
3. Security and Geopolitics
4. Threat Discourse
Part II – Text
Introduction
5. Sovietology
6. Power Politics
7. Geopolitics
8. Nuclear Strategy
Part III – Contra-Text
Introduction
9. The Geopolitics of Security Discourse
10. Critical Geopolitics
Bibliography
Index
This Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of classic titles on the history and politics of the 20th century.
Simon Dalby is the CIGI Chair in the Political Economy of Climate Change at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.
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