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Mental Maps in the Era of Détente and the End of the Cold War 1968–91 Mental Maps in the Era of Détente and the End of the Cold War 1968–91 Editedby Steven Casey LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience,UK Jonathan Wright ChristChurch,UniversityofOxford,UK Introduction,conclusion,editorialmatterandselection©StevenCaseyand JonathanWright2015 Individualchapters©Respectiveauthors2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-50095-3 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. 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LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData MentalmapsintheeraofdétenteandtheendoftheColdWar,1968–91/ [editedby]StevenCasey(LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPolitical Science,UK),JonathanWright(ChristChurchCollege,Oxford,UK). pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferences. 1. Politicalleadership—Psychologicalaspects—Casestudies. 2. Heads ofstate—Psychology—Casestudies. 3. Politicalculture—Casestudies. 4. Headsofstate—Biography. 5. ColdWar. 6. Worldpolitics— 1945–1989. 7. Worldpolitics—1985–1995. 8. International relations—History—20thcentury. 9. Balanceofpower—History— 20thcentury. 10. Socialchange—History—20thcentury. I. Casey, Steven. II. Wright,Jonathan,1941– JC330.3.M4572015 321.0092(cid:2)2—dc23 2015019261 Contents Acknowledgements vii NotesonContributors viii Introduction 1 StevenCaseyandJonathanWright 1 ‘DonotthinkIamsoft...’:LeonidBrezhnev 6 VladislavZubok 2 RichardNixonandHenryKissinger: TheOutsiders? 24 JussiM.Hanhimäki 3 SalvadorAllende 42 VictorFigueroa-Clark 4 NicolaeCeausescu 60 ’ ElizaGheorghe 5 JuliusNyerere 81 EmmaHunter 6 KingHusseinofJordan 97 NigelAshton 7 PresidentSoeharto 114 DavidJenkins 8 DengXiaoping 137 YafengXia 9 VáclavHavel 156 KieranWilliams 10 WillyBrandtandHelmutKohl 174 JonathanWright 11 RonaldReagan 195 LuisdaVinha 12 MikhailGorbachev 216 ArchieBrown v vi Contents 13 NelsonMandela 236 RitaBarnardandMonicaPopescu Conclusion 250 JonathanWrightandStevenCasey FurtherReading 253 Index 256 Acknowledgements We would like to take this opportunity to thank successive editors at Palgrave, and for this volume Clare Mence, Emily Russell and Angharad Bishop, and all our contributors – in this volume as in the previous ones, writingfromawidevarietyofvantagepoints–formakingthesethreestud- ies of the ‘mental maps’ of some 42 outstanding political leaders of the twentiethcenturypossible. S.C.andJ.W. vii Notes on Contributors Nigel AshtonisProfessorofInternationalHistoryattheLondonSchoolof Economics and Political Science. He is the author of King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life (2008), Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War: The Irony of Interdependence (2002) and Eisenhower, Macmillan and the Problem of Nasser: Anglo–AmericanRelationsandArabNationalism,1955–59(1996).Hehasalso editedTheColdWarintheMiddleEast:RegionalConflictandtheSuperpowers, 1967–73(2007)andTheIran–IraqWar:NewInternationalPerspectives(2013). RitaBarnardisProfessorofEnglishandComparativeLiteratureattheUni- versity of Pennsylvania, where she directs the undergraduate programme in comparative literature. She holds a secondary position as Professor ExtraordinaireattheUniversityofStellenbosch.HerbooksincludeTheGreat Depression and the Culture of Abundance, Apartheid and Beyond: South African WritersandthePoliticsofPlaceandtheeditedcollection,TheCambridgeCom- panion to Nelson Mandela (2014). She is co-editor of Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies and After the Thrill is Gone: Ten Years of DemocracyinSouthAfrica. Archie BrownisEmeritusProfessorofPoliticsatOxfordUniversityandan Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College. His latest book is The Myth of the StrongLeader:PoliticalLeadershipintheModernAge(2014,2015)andhisother publications include The Gorbachev Factor (1996) which was awarded the W.J.M.MackenziePrizeofthePoliticalStudiesAssociationoftheUKforbest politicsbookoftheyearandtheAlecNovePrizefromtheBritishAssociation for Slavonic and East European Studies for best book on Russia, Commu- nism or post-Communism; Seven Years That Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective (2007); and The Rise and Fall of Communism (2009, 2010), for whichhereceivedforasecondtimeboththeMackenzieandtheNoveprizes. Archie Brown has been a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale, the UniversityofConnecticut,ColumbiaUniversity(NewYork)andtheUniver- sityofTexasatAustin,andwasDistinguishedVisitingFellowattheKellogg InstituteforInternationalStudies,UniversityofNotreDame.Hewaselected to a Fellowship of the British Academy in 1991 and to Foreign Honorary MembershipoftheAmericanAcademyofArtsandSciencesin2003.Hewas appointed CMG in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List of 2005 ‘for services toUK–Russianrelationsandthestudyofpoliticalscienceandinternational affairs’. viii NotesonContributors ix Steven Casey is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His books include Cautious Crusade: FranklinD.Roosevelt,PublicOpinionandtheWaragainstGermany,1941–1945 (2001),SellingtheKoreanWar:Propaganda,Politics,andPublicOpinion,1950– 1953(2008),whichwonboththeTrumanAwardandtheNeustadtPrize,and When Soldiers Fall: How Americans Have Confronted Combat Casualties from WorldWarItoAfghanistan(2014).HeisalsoeditorofTheKoreanWaratSixty (2012) and, with Jonathan Wright, Mental Maps in the Era of the Two World Wars (Palgrave, 2008) and Mental Maps in the Early Cold War Era (Palgrave, 2012). VictorFigueroa-ClarkistheauthorofSalvadorAllende:RevolutionaryDemo- crat (2013), the political biography of Salvador Allende. He is a research associate at the Latin America Programme of the LSE IDEAS Centre for Diplomacy and Strategy, and teaches US–Latin American relations at the LSE International History Department. He is a specialist on Chilean and Latin American history, and wrote his doctoral thesis on the relationship between the Chilean left, Cuba and the Sandinista Revolution. His work focusesonpolitical,socialandmilitaryconflict,andhehasalsowrittenon thetransitiontodemocracyinChile. Eliza Gheorghe received her doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Belfer CenterforScienceandInternationalAffairsatHarvardUniversity.Shewrites on nuclear proliferation during the Cold War, with a focus on atomic assistance, alliance politics and nuclear dominoes. She was a fellow at the NorwegianInstituteforDefenseStudies(2011–14),aGeorgeAbernethypre- doctoralfellowattheJohnsHopkinsUniversitySAISCenterinBolognaand apost-doctoralfellowatCornellUniversity.HerworkonRomania’snegoti- ations for nuclear technology during the 1960s has been published in Cold WarHistoryandEuropeanReviewofHistory. Jussi M. Hanhimäki is Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. His books include The Rise and Fall of Détente: American Foreign Policy and the Trans- formation of the Cold War (2013); The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and AmericanForeignPolicy(2004);andTheColdWar:AHistoryinDocumentsand Eyewitness Accounts (2003). He serves on the editorial boards of Refugee Sur- veyQuarterly,ColdWarHistoryandRelationsInternationales.In2006Professor Hanhimäki was named Finland Distinguished Professor by the Academy of Finland. Emma Hunter is a Lecturer in African History at the University of Edinburgh. Before moving to Edinburgh she was Lecturer in History and
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