The Cold War Is Over … Again

Abstract

On the failed Soviet coup of August 1991 the legacy of the past - the Cold War is over, again the nuclear family - the management of US-Soviet nuclear relations rhetoric and reality - US policy toward Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 the dynamics of the present - the agonies of reform in Gorbachev's USSR the conceptual revolution in Soviet foreign policy does Gorbachev matter any more? the continuing importance of ideology challenges of the future - Soviet collapse and US foreign policy prospects.