War or Peace?: Nationalism, Democracy, and American Foreign Policy in Post- Communist Europe

by Steven L. Burg

For more than forty years, Western policymakers defined communism as the central threat to international peace and stability. They responded by confronting it with a counterbalancing threat of force, and pursuing a strategy of containment. With the collapse of communism, the challenge to peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic community has changed. Soviet expansionism has been supplanted by powerful, internal forces arising out of the clash of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814712703
• ISBN13: 9780814712702
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"