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In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US-Soviet relations across the years between 1980 and 1985, Simon Miles shows that covert engagement gave way to overt conversation as both superpowers determined that open diplomacy was the best means of furthering their own, primarily competitive, goals. Miles narrates the history of these dramatic years, as President Ronald Reagan consistently applied a disciplined carrot-and-stick approach, reaching out to Moscow while at the same time excoriating the Soviet system and building up US military capabilities.The received wisdom in diplomatic circles is that the beginning of the end of the Cold War came from changing policy preferences and that President Reagan in particular opted for a more conciliatory and less bellicose diplomatic approach. In reality, Miles clearly demonstrates, Reagan and ranking officials in the National Security Council had determined that the United States enjoyed a strategic margin of error that permitted it to engage Moscow overtly.As US grand strategy developed, so did that of the Soviet Union. Engaging the Evil Empire covers five critical years of Cold War history when Soviet leaders tried to reduce tensions between the two nations in order to gain economic breathing room and, to ensure domestic political stability, prioritize expenditures on butter over those on guns. Miles's bold narrative shifts the focus of Cold War historians away from exclusive attention on Washington by focusing on the years of back-channel communiques and internal strategy debates in Moscow as well as Prague and East Berlin.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 octobre 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501751707
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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ENGAGïNG THE EVï EMPïRE

WASHI NGTON, MOSCOW, AND T HE BEGI NNI NG OF T HE E ND OF T HE COL D WAR

S i m o n M i l e s

CORNE UNïVERSïTY PRESS ïthaca and London

A rîghts reserved. Except or brîe quotatîons în a revîew, thîs book, or parts thereo, must not be reproduced în any orm wîthout permîssîon în wrîtîng rom the pubîsher. For înormatîon, address Corne Unîversîty Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, ïthaca, New York 14850. Vîsît our websîte at cornepress.corne.edu.

Fîrst pubîshed 2020 by Corne Unîversîty Press

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Names: Mîes, Sîmon, 1988– author. Tîte: Engagîng the evî empîre : Washîngton, Moscow, and the begînnîng o the end o the Cod War / Sîmon Mîes. Descrîptîon: ïthaca, New York : Corne Unîversîty Press, 2020. | ïncudes bîbîographîca reerences and îndex. ïdentîIers: CCN 2020016628 (prînt) | CCN 2020016629 (ebook) | ïSBN 9781501751691 (coth) | ïSBN 9781501751707 (pd ) | ïSBN 9781501751714 (epub)Subjects: CSH: Cod War. | Word poîtîcs—1975–1985. | Unîted States—Foreîgn reatîons—Sovîet Unîon. | Sovîet Unîon—Foreîgn reatîons—Unîted States. CassîIcatîon: CC D849 .M5412 2020 (prînt) | CC D849 (ebook) | DDC 909.82/5—dc23 C record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov/2020016628 C ebook record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov/2020 016629

Cover îmage: Pershîng ïï mîssîes prepared or aunchîng at Fort Bîss McGregor Range, 1987. Photo courtesy o Deense Vîsua ïnormatîon Center, Department o Deense.

For my parents

ï’mabeîeverînquîetdîpomacyandsoarwe’vehadseveraquîte trîumphant experîences by usîng that method. The probem îs, you can’t tak about ît aterward or then you can’t do ît agaîn. —Ronad Reagan to John Koeher, Juy 9, 1981

We have more contact wîth the Sovîets than anyone îs aware o and whether to have a meetîng or not îs on the agenda at both ends o the îne. —Ronad Reagan to Pau Trousdae, May 23, 1983

Co n t e n t s

Acknowedmentsîx Abbrevîatîonsxîîî Note on Transîteratîon and Transatîonxv

ïntroductîon: Grand Strategy and the End o the Cod War 1. Red Star Rîsîng: The Word accordîng to Washîngton and Moscow 2. Arm to Parey: Reagan Rebuîds and Reaches Out 3. Takîng about Takîng: Contînuîtîes and Crîses 4. Trîa Baoons: Reachîng Out and ayîng Groundwork 5. New Departures: The Begînnîng o the End o the Cod War Concusîon: Wînners and osers

Notes141 Bîbîoraphy201 ïndex223

106 130

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ïn competîng thîs project, ï have accumuated a host o debts. Any attempt to acknowedge them must begîn, as ît dîd, în the archîves: the archîvîsts and decassîIcatîon specîaîsts în the Austraîan, Brît-îsh, Canadîan, Czech, French, German, Russîan, Ukraînîan, and US archîves acîîtated my research there and made ît extremey ruîtu. Wîthout theîr proessîonaîsm—and patîence—thîs book woud not have been possîbe. Severa înstîtutîons supported my research. A three-year eowshîp rom the Socîa Scîences and Humanîtîes Research Councî o Canada gave me the reedom to conduct much o the înternatîona archîva research on whîch thîs book îs based. Wîthout thîs support rom the government o Canada, the end product woud undoubtedy have sufered. Two successîve Word Poîtîcs and Statecrat Feowshîps rom the Smîth Rîchardson Foundatîon aso gave me the reedom to make the story ï te as înternatîona as possîbe. ï aso receîved vauabe Inancîa support rom the Amerîcan Grand Strategy Program and the Josîah Chares Trent Memorîa Foundatîon Endowment Fund at Duke Unî-versîty; the Eîsenhower ïnstîtute at Gettysburg Coege; the Gerad R. Ford and George H. W. Bush presîdentîa îbrarîes; and the Center or Russîan, East European and Eurasîan Studîes, the Robert Strauss Center or ïnternatîona Securîty and aw, the Wîîam P. Cements Jr. Center or Natîona Securîty, and the Department o Hîstory at the Unîversîty o Texas at Austîn. The research or thîs book began at the Unîversîty o Texas at Austîn. Whîe there, ï beneIted rom the guîdance and însîghts o a group o outstandîng hîstorîans în the Hîstory Department and the yndon B. Johnson Schoo o Pubîc Afaîrs: Frank Gavîn, Wî ïnboden, Mark awrence, Charters Wynn, and Jeremî Surî, my advîser, who each made thîs a better work o hîstory and me a better hîstorîan. For that, ï am în theîr debt. ï had the good ortune to spend three years as a vîsîtîng eow at the Bî Graham Centre or Con-temporary ïnternatîona Hîstory at the Unîversîty o Toronto’s Munk Schoo o Goba Afaîrs. ï am very grateu to John Engîsh and Jack Cunnîngham or gîvîng me an înteectua home there. Toronto îs where my journey as

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