Creating the second Cold War : the discourse of politics / Simon Dalby.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Part One: Context; Introduction; Chapter 1: Social theory and security discourse; 'Postmodernism' and global crisis; Social theory: discourse; Social theory: ideology and hegemony; The hegemony of security discourse; Reading security discourse; Chapter 2: Discourse and otherness; The Other: identity, difference; The Other: time, space, geopolitics; The Other and world order; Europeans and others; Otherness and US geopolitical discourse; Chapter 3: Security and geopolitics.

Political theory, states and securityGeopolitics, space and power; Classical geopolitics; Geopolitics and containment; Geopolitical discourse; Chapter 4: Threat discourse; Containment militarism and the 'Soviet threat'; 'Common Sense and the Common Danger'; 'What is the Soviet Union Up To?'; CPD discourse; Part Two: Text; Introduction; Chapter 5: Sovietology; Sovietology and totalitarianism; CPD Sovietology; Soviet-US differences; Geography and patrimonialism; Militarism and Soviet foreign policy; Totalitarianism rehabilitated; Chapter 6: Power politics; International relations and realism.

Detente and appeasementThe rationale for realism; Realism and geopolitics; Realism as geopolitics; Chapter 7: Geopolitics; Containment and geopolitics; Geopolitics and superpower rivalry; Mackinder updated; The geopolitics of Soviet Empire; The ideology of geopolitics; Chapter 8: Nuclear strategy; Strategy and deterrence; The CPD against SALT; Soviet war-fighting strategy; 1. Pre-emption; 2. Quantitative superiority; 3. Counterforce targeting; 4. Combined-arms operations; 5. Defence; Sovietology and strategy; SALT, geopolitics and strategy; The theory of victory.

Nuclear war-fighting strategies: NUTS to DEADPart Three: Contra-text; Introduction; Chapter 9: The geopolitics of security discourse; CPD geographs; The CPD and the Reagan administration; Space, security, hegemony; Chapter 10: Critical geopolitics; Discourses of war and peace; Political space and dissent discourse; Challenging hegemony: dealignment; Challenging hegemony: security and development; Critical geopolitics; Bibliography; Index.

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