ID | 138598 |
Title Proper | Threatlessness and US grand strategy |
Language | ENG |
Author | Fettweis, Christopher J |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | As the Soviet Union was in the process of collapsing, Georgi Arbatov sent a letter to the New York Times that contained a warning for the United States. Arbatov, who was one of the Kremlin’s leading ‘Amerikanists’, wrote that the Soviets were unleashing a ‘secret weapon’, one ‘that will work almost regardless of the American response’. It was not the stuff of Cold War nightmares, some sort of last-minute deus ex machina from the Academy of Sciences that would rescue the Soviet Union from oblivion. No, in this instance, the weapon was psychological and unequivocal: the Kremlin was about to deprive America of the Enemy. |
`In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 56, No.5; Oct/Nov 2014: p.43-68 |
Journal Source | Surviva Vol: 56 No 5 |
Key Words | NATO ; Terrorism ; proliferation ; Rogue States ; Post - Cold War Era ; US Grand Strategy ; ISIS ; Soviet Union ; Threatlessness ; US Strategic Community ; Rise of New Terrors |