Explaining the anti-Soviet revolutions by state breakdown theory and geopolitical theory

International Politics

Volumn 48, Issue 4-5, 2011, Pages 575-590

  Collins, Randall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

decline; geopolitics; military build up; Reagan; USA; USSR

Indexed keywords

COMMUNISM; GEOPOLITICS; POLITICAL CHANGE; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; POLITICAL INSTABILITY; POLITICAL THEORY; STATE BUILDING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83455242852     PISSN: 13845748     EISSN: 17403898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ip.2011.15     Document Type: Article

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