Traditional great power rivalry: an assessment Flashcards
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How does traditional great power rivalry take a long-term view?
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Connects the development of the Cold War to well-established trends in US and Russian foreign policu
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What does traditional great power rivalry identify?
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The role of traditional self-interest abd destablising effects of WW2 in promoting Cold War tensions
3
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What can US-Soviet antagonism be viewed as?
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New type of great power rivalry, because, by the 1950s it had assumed a truly global scale
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What did US-Soviet rivalry not result in?
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Unlike previous great power confrontations, it didn’t reult in direct war because of the development of nuclear weapons
