The United States and the transformation of the cold war

The Last Decade of the Cold War: From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 187-200

  Fischer, Beth A ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203646205     Document Type: Chapter

References (33)

1. Robert G.Kaiser, Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumph, His Failure, and His Fall (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), pp. 11, 13.
2. William D.Jackson, 'Soviet Reassessment of Ronald Reagan, 1985-1988', Political Science Quarterly, vol. 113, no. 4 (Winter 1998-99):623-4.
3. Strobe Talbott, on 'Inside Washington', as quoted in Peter Schweizer, Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy that Hastened the Collapse of the Cold War (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994), p. xii.
4. Authors who subscribe to this view include Schweizer, Victory, Richard Pipes, 'Misinterpreting the Cold War', Foreign Affairs, vol. 74 (January/February 1995): 154-61;
5. Caspar Weinberger, Fighting for Peace (New York: Warner Books, 1990);
6. Robert Gates, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Inside Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).
7. Georgi Arbatov memorandum to Charles W.Kegley, Jr, 1991, as quoted in Kegley, 'How did the Cold War Die? Principles for an Autopsy', Mershon International Studies Review, vol. 38 (1994):14-15.
8. For more on the change in policy see Beth A.Fischer, The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1997);
9. Don Oberdorfer, The Turn: From Cold War to a New Era (New York: Poseidon Press, 1991);
10. George P.Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993);
11. Raymond L.Garthoff, The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1994).
12. For Gorbachev's changing perception of the new US policy see Jackson, 'Soviet Reassessment of Reagan, 1985-1988.'
13. Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan: An American Life (New York: Pocket Books, 1990), p. 547.
14. Gorbachev, as quoted in Jonathan Schell, 'The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons', The Nation (2-9 February 1998). Accessible at www.gci.ch/GreenCrossFamily/gorby/newspeeches/interviews/thenation.html.
15. Gorbachev, quoted in Schell, 'The Gift of Time'.
16. Quoted in Lou Cannon, 'President Hails Japan as Partner', Washington Post, 11 November 1983.
17. See also Fischer, Reagan Reversal, p. 135.
18. As quoted in Frances FitzGerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 416.
19. Mikhail Gorbachev, Memoirs (London: Doubleday, 1996), p. 414.
20. Pavel Palazchenko, Princeton Conference on the Ending of the Cold War, Session VI (26-27 February 1993), p. 138. (Henceforth, 'Princeton Conference'.)
21. Gorbachev, quoted in Schell, 'The Gift of Time'.
22. Chernyaev, Brown Conference, pp. 44-5.
23. Ronald Reagan, 'The US-Soviet Relationship', 16 January 1984, Department of State Bulletin 84:2083:1-4.
24. Chernyaev, Brown Conference, p. 64.
25. McFarlane, Brown Conference, p. 67.
26. Slipchenko, Brown Conference, pp. 51-2.
27. Yakovlev, as cited in FitzGerald, In the Blue, p. 411.
28. Garthoff, Great Transition, p. 516n.
29. R.Jeffrey Smith, '3 "Star Wars" Tests Rigged, Aspin Says; Scheme to Mislead Soviets Went Awry', Washington Post, 10 September 1993, p. A19;
30. Chernyaev, Brown Conference, pp. 44-5.
31. Daniel Deudney and G.John Ikenberry, 'Who Won the Cold War?', in G.John Ikenberry, ed., American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays, 2nd edn (New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1996), p. 628.
32. Aleksandr Bessmertnykh, Princeton Conference, pp. 125-7, 160.
33. Raymond L.Garthoff, A Journey through the Cold War: A Memoir of Containment and Coexistence, (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2001), p. 377.