Thirty years after the Soviet Union’s collapse, this book reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics between the Cold War and COVID Not one inch. With these words, Secretary of State James Baker proposed a hypothetical bargain to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev after the fall of the Berlin Wall: if you let your part of Germany go, we move NAT...(展开全部)

Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text focuses on U.S./Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. The thesis allows for use of anecdote and quotation to exemplify the policies.

◆著者简介◆—————————————————————— 沃尔特•拉费伯尔 当代美国著名历史学家。出生于美国印第安纳州，先后获斯坦福大学硕士、威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校博士。1968年以来在康奈尔大学任历史学讲座教授。主要著作有：《美国的时代：1750年以来美国对外政策的国内和国外方面》，《不可避免的革命：美国在中美洲》，《巴拿马运河：历史视野中的危机》，《新帝国：对美国扩张的解释，1865-1998》，《迈克尔•乔丹和新全球资本主义》，《死亡的赌注：林登•约翰逊、越南和1968年大选》。他还是《剑桥美国对外关系史》第2卷《美国对机会的寻求》（有中译本）的作者。他所著《冲突：历史上的美日关系》（1997年）获得班克罗夫特奖和霍利奖。 ◆译者简介◆—————————————————————— 牛可 北京大学历史学系 副教授 翟韬 北京大学历史学系 博...(展开全部)

Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text focuses on United States-Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. It explores how the Cold War was shaped by domestic events in both the U.S. and the Soviet Union and presents a variety of other points of view on the conflict - Chinese, Latin American, European, ...(展开全部)

From one of America’s leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of...(展开全部)

From one of America’s leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of...(展开全部)

作者簡介 麥可．曼德爾邦（Michael Mandelbaum） 曼德爾邦是約翰霍普金斯大學高級國際研究學院教授，也曾任教於哈佛大學、哥倫比亞大學，專攻美國外交政策。他擔任華盛頓近東政策研究所顧問，該所贊助中東政策研究和相關議題的公共討論。曼德爾邦畢業於耶魯大學，獲劍橋 大學國王學院碩士，並在哈佛大學完成博士學位。他著有十六本書，包括《征服世界的觀念》（The Ideas That Conquered the World）、《節約的超級強權》（The Frugal Superpower），以及與湯瑪斯．佛里曼合著的《我們曾經輝煌：美國在新世界生存的關鍵》（That Used To Be Us）。 譯者簡介 林添貴 國立台灣大學畢業，歷任企業高階主管及新聞媒體資深編輯人。

罗伯特•D. 卡普兰（Robert D. Kaplan） 《大西洋月刊》资深记者，美国著名地缘政治分析家，曾被美《外交政策》杂志评为全球100大思想家之一。卡普兰是20世纪80年代第一位指出未来将在巴尔干地区爆发战争的美国作家。美国前总统克林顿和乔治•W. 布什都是卡普兰的读者，他的书使克林顿决定不向科索沃派兵，而布什也将他的书列在必读之首，《华盛顿邮报》刊登专文评论说，卡普兰影响了“布什的世界观”。