Politics, Paradigms, and Intelligence Failures: Why So Few Predicted the Collapse of the Soviet Union

by Ofira Seliktar

Book Overview

Washington's failure to foresee the collapse of its superpower rival ranks high in the pantheon of predictive failures. Drawing on declassified documents, interviews, and contemporaneous literature, this book analyses this predictive failure at the paradigmatic, foreign policy, and intelligence levels.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765614642
• ISBN13: 9780765614643
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"