Dr. Michael Salla is an internationally recognized scholar in global politics, conflict resolution and U.S. foreign policy. He has taught at universities in the U.S. and Australia, including American University in Washington, DC. Today, he is most popularly known as a pioneer in the development of the field of 'exopolitics'; the study of the main actors, institutions and political processes associated with extraterrestrial life.
He has been a guest speaker on hundreds of radio and TV shows, and featured at national and international conferences. His Amazon best selling Secret Space Program book series has made him a leading voice in the Truth Movement, and over 5000 people a day visit his website for his most recent articles. Dr. Salla's Website: www.exopolitics.org

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Did the West win the Cold War? Was it a genuine or a contrived conflict? When did it begin? How was its cause related to its end? These are among the questions considered by the contributors of this volume. Asked to assess the combination of socio-political forces and events they attribute to ending the Cold War, they have come up with diverse theories that challenge the self-serving orthodoxy that claims Western military prowess, economic strength, and ideological superiority produced the triumph.

The contributors consider a range of views from the contention that the West's military resolve and economic capacity forced the Soviet Union into submission to arguments focusing on U.S. and West European peace movements and East European dissent movements. Between these diametric positions, they weigh the significance of such factors as the new thinking in the Soviet Union and the intelligentsia of Eastern Europe. Through a range of many views, they provide a broad interpretive framework for understanding the Cold War's end, and suggest how that understanding is related to the solving of future conflicts.

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Providing viewpoints that offer an interpretive framework for understanding the end of the Cold War, this volume considers such questions as when the Cold War began, whether it was a genuine or a contrived conflict, and whether the West did indeed win the Cold War.

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Foreword by David Lange Acknowledgments Introduction; Challenging the Emergent Orthodoxy by Ralph Summy Political Leaders and Their Policies Did Reagan "Win" the Cold War? by April Carter Ronald Reaganism Ended the Cold War-In the 1960s by Robert Elias The End of the Cold War: The Brezhnev Doctrine by Joanne Wright Mass Movements and "New Thinking" The Peace Movement Role in Ending the Cold War by David Cortright Gorbachev, the Peace Movement, and the Death of Lenin by Jennifer Turpin The Peace Movement's Role in Ending the Cold War by David Cortright Europe 1989: The Role of Peace Research and the Peace Movement by Johan Galtung The Erosion of Regime Legitimacy in Eastern European Satellite States: The Case of the German Democratic Republic by Ulf Sundhaussen Economic Determinants "Upper Volta With Rockets": Internal vs. External Factors in the Decline of the Soviet Union by Dennis Phillips Marxism, Capitalism, and Democracy: Some Post-Soviet Dilemmas by Geoff Dow Whose Cold War? by Rick Kuhn Systemic Global Changes Carrots Were More Important Than Sticks in Ending the Cold War by Kevin Clements How the Cold War Became an Expensive Irrelevance by Keith Suter Emerging Paradigms & Lessons Learnt The Continuing Cold War by John Burton In the Shadow of the Middle Kingdom Syndrome: China in the Post-Cold War World by C. L. Chiou The Cold War and After: A New Period of Upheaval in World Politics by Joseph Camilleri Conclusion The End of the Cold War: A Political, Historical, and Mythological Event by Michael E. Salla Bibliography Index