Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958

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Write a review Rate this item: Preview this item Preview this item. Reconstructing the Cold War: English View all editions and formats Summary: General answers are hard to imagine for the many puzzling questions that are raised by Soviet relations with the world in the early years of the Cold War. Why would the Soviet Union abandon its closest socialist ally, Yugoslavia, just when the Cold War was getting under way?

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How could Khrushchev's de-Stalinized domestic and foreign policies at first cause a warming of relations with China, and then lead to the loss of its most important strategic ally? What can explain Stalin's failure to ally with the leaders of the.

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The turn from Stalin's discourse of danger to the discourse of difference under his successors explains the abrupt changes in relations with Eastern Europe, China, the decolonizing world, and the West. Publisher Synopsis an interesting mix of theoretical and historical explanations of foreign policy's domestic sources. User-contributed reviews Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.

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Privacy Policy Terms and Conditions. For each of these puzzles, he shows that Soviet external policy was driven by a particular way the Soviet Union came to understand itself.

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Once an identity "discourse of difference" was empowered, relations with Yugoslavia, the Eastern bloc, China, and the Third World were redefined. Covering , the book is the first of a planned trilogy that will cover Soviet foreign policy through the end of the Cold War. In today's environment of overwhelming academic output, Hopf stands out as a scholar whose research one is always inspired to read and reflect upon.

This book is no exception. It is a must-read for its combination of IR theory and history, precisely because history is not used simply for quick theoretical points. Instead, Hopf devises a theoretical framework for understanding the history of Soviet foreign policy. In return, his meticulous historical analysis feeds back to IR theory, especially constructivist foreign policy analysis FPA —in content and methodology.

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Whereas FPA has become centered on the analysis of individual decisions, thereby harnessing a multitude of factors from standard [End Page ] operating procedures to cognitive psychological dispositions, Hopf's approach harks back to a more classical study of national foreign policy traditions , a form of study that was never purely deductive from sheer power positions.

Before we know what the Soviet Union stands for in its international relations, Hopf argues, we need to know what the Soviet Union stands for in its self-understanding. Hopf's theoretical contribution is the development of a specific "societal" version of constructivism, an approach that builds on work presented in his earlier award-winning book. In this approach, the reference group of recognition for identity is always relational is domestic not international society.

He therefore carefully tries to identify the sources of the identity discourses he finds in the institutions of civil society that deal with ideas and their expression, that is, the arts mainly written , the university and scientific system, and the press.

In the present book, he explicitly adds an institutional component to his approach, insisting on the ways certain formal and informal institutions can become carriers of ideas—or their temporarily silent depository. Analyzing identity in such places as novels is necessary because looking for identity discourses is looking for the taken-for-granted, for the things that go without saying.

This has methodological implications because it makes a quantitative content analysis which usually checks for key words and their relations quite difficult, and it explains Hopf's preference for an interpretive reconstruction of such underlying identities in If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate'. View freely available titles: Book titles OR Journal titles.