Overview
Uses an overarching neoclassical realist framework to identify four key dimensions that characterised the original Cold War
Analyses the technological and ideological aspects of the Cold War and compares them to the current political climate
Argues that the Cold War became a contest of global significance in part due to the structure of bipolarity
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- US-Russia relations
- Cold War
- Russian politics
- political history
- US politics
- 20th century politics
- neoclassical realism
- Type III NCR
- IR theory
- biopolarity
- unipolarity
- democratic capitalism
- Marxism-Leninism
- nuclear weapons
- cyberwar
- technological differences US-Russia
- ideological differences US-Russia
- new Cold War
- nuclear deterrance
- diplomacy
- russian and post-soviet politics
About this book
This book examines the contention that current US-Russia relations have descended into a ‘New Cold War’. It examines four key dimensions of the original Cold War, the structural, the ideological, the psychological, and the technological, and argues that the current US-Russia relationship bears little resemblance to the Cold War. Presently, the international system is transitioning towards multipolarity, with Russia a declining power, while current ideological differences and threat perceptions are neither as rigid nor as bleak as they once were. Ultimately, when the four dimensions of analysis are weighed in unison, this work argues that the claim of a New Cold War is a hyperbolic assessment of US-Russia relations.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Nicholas Ross Smith is Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A New Cold War?
Book Subtitle: Assessing the Current US-Russia Relationship
Authors: Nicholas Ross Smith
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20675-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20674-1Published: 12 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20675-8Published: 29 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 86
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: US Politics, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Diplomacy, Foreign Policy