War or Peace?: Nationalism, Democracy, and American Foreign Policy in Post-Communist Europe - Rilegato

Burg, Steven L.

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ISBN 10: 0814712703 ISBN 13: 9780814712702

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

For more than forty years, Western policymakers defined communism as the central threat to international peace and stability. They responded by confronting it with a counterbalancing threat of force, and pursuing a strategy of containment. With the collapse of communism, the challenge to peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic community has changed. Soviet expansionism has been supplanted by powerful, internal forces arising out of the clash of competing ethnic nationalisms. This challenge, argues Steven L. Burg, cannot be met by force alone, or neutralized through a strategy of containment. It requires Western states to act decisively to influence the internal political development of the post- communist states themselves.

Burg surveys the challenges that the ethnic diversity in Eastern Europe present to domestic stability, international peace, and American interests, and suggests policies and practices by which the United States and its allies might contribute to the consolidation of peace in the region. He provides a concise explanation and analysis of the issues, evaluates the usefulness of scholarly approaches to the resolution of ethnic conflicts, and offers a strategy of what he calls preventive engagement by which policymakers may prevent conflicts such as the one that destroyed the former Yugoslavia.

War or Peace? offers clear and direct recommendations to guide both interested citizens and national policymakers as they attempt to grapple with the complexities of ethnic and nationalist politics in Europe.

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L'autore:

Steven L. Burg is Professor of Politics at Brandeis University.

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Book by Burg Stephen L

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0814712703
• ISBN 13: 9780814712702
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 258