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Ending the Cold War on the cheap The George H. W. Bush Administration and the Issue of Western Financial Aid to Perestroika, 1989-1991.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ending the Cold War on the cheap The George H. W. Bush Administration and the Issue of Western Financial Aid to Perestroika, 1989-1991./
Author:	Citrinn, Paul.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	206 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-07A(E).
Subject:	International relations. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10255338
ISBN:	9781369564099

Ending the Cold War on the cheap The George H. W. Bush Administration and the Issue of Western Financial Aid to Perestroika, 1989-1991.
Citrinn, Paul.

Ending the Cold War on the cheap The George H. W. Bush Administration and the Issue of Western Financial Aid to Perestroika, 1989-1991. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 206 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The New School, 2017.

This dissertation considers a pivotal aspect of U.S. policies toward the Soviet Union at a time when the Kremlin leadership's ambitious internal reform effort, perestroika, was heading to its disastrous conclusion. There was a seeming incongruity in the way President Bush ap-proached the challenge of the Gorbachev revolution. Time and again, the U.S. president pro-fessed solidarity with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reform cause, yet he never brought his administration to convert friendly rhetoric into serious action of support. In fact, as it is shown in the thesis, "no bailout for Gorbachev" was a preset policy line which the Bush Administration consistently pursued. Exploring the rationale behind the Bush policy of aid denial, the dissertation delineates a range of its plausible components and attempts to establish their actual relevance through contextual analysis. It is the central argument of the thesis that President Bush's policy on financial aid to perestroika was shaped by a triad of his key dispositions as president: a) a minimalist approach to the mission and tasks of the presidency, b) realist foreign-policy convictions setting Bush against U.S. involvement in other nations' internal affairs, and c) a frugal attitude to government spending. In addition, there were a host of second-tier influences that might have solidified the president's unwillingness "to write checks" to Gorbachev---from the in-house Gorbi-skeptics' ad-vocacy to the expert community's consensus about undesirability of rushing U.S. aid to Gorba-chev to stark opposition to the perestroika bailout at all societal levels. In conclusion, the thesis reflects on President Bush's statecraft in tackling the historic challenge of the Gorbachev revolution in the Soviet Union. In the author's assessment, Bush's exceedingly cautious non-entanglement strategy hardly amounted to a fitting response to critical change in world politics.

ISBN: 9781369564099Subjects--Topical Terms:

531762
International relations.

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