Title: Superpower competition and crisis prevention in the Third World /
Authors: Allison, Roy.; Williams, Phil,
Date: 1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Physical description: xii, 281 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC class: D
Abstract: This 1990 publication puts forward the view that superpower competition in the Third World has always carried with it the likelihood of acute crises and that this likelihood may be reduced through a variety of tacit understandings or explicit agreements between Washington and Moscow. As the central study from the Ford Foundation/Southampton University project on North/South security relations, the text brings together specialists from a variety of backgrounds to identify the roots of the competitive relationship in the 1970s and 1980s and then consider a range of specific regional conflicts in which both superpowers have been involved. Although superpower collaboration had increased, the long-term character and intentions of Soviet and American involvement in the Third World remained uncertain. In these circumstances it was particularly timely to reappraise past experience and assess the future prospects for crisis prevention in politically turbulent and potentially dangerous areas.
Contents: Superpower competition and crisis prevention in the Third World / Roy Allison & Phil Williams -- Soviet policies in the Third World : objectives, instruments and constraints / Robert S. Litwak -- US policies in the Third World : objectives, instruments and constraints / Derek Leebaert -- US and Soviet maritime rivalry in the Third World / Roger W. Barnett -- Superpower arms transfers to the Third World / Joanna Spear & Stuart Croft -- Superpower interests in Third Areas / Alexander L. George -- Superpowers and the Middle East / Robert O. Freedman -- Superpowers and the Gulf / Shahram Chubin -- Superpowers and Southwest Asia / Roy Allison -- Superpowers and Central America and the Caribbean / Peter Shearman -- Superpowers and Southern Africa / Geoff R. Berridge -- Superpowers and Southeast Asia / Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu -- Crisis prevention : patterns and prospects / Roy Allison & Phil Williams -- Basic Principles Agreement, 1972. Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1973. Brezhnev's Code of Conduct, 1981.