The Adversaries: America, Russia and the Open World, 1941-62

by Michael Balfour

Book Overview

The Adversaries (1981) examines the post-war world that both the US and the Soviet Union tried to mould in their own images. Their faith in their respective systems came at the cost of a political, economic and military clashing in various parts of the world, an antagonism that rendered the United Nations ineffective as an organ of world government. This book analyses these clashes, as the foreign policy decisions of both superpowers had wide-ranging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032382740
• ISBN13: 9781032382746
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 260 Pages