TY - BOOK AU - Barbour,William AU - Wekesser,Carol TI - The breakup of the Soviet Union: opposing viewpoints T2 - Opposing viewpoints series SN - 1565100689 (alk. paper) AV - DK286 .B75 1994 U1 - 947.085/4 20 PY - 1994/// CY - San Diego, CA PB - Greenhaven Press KW - World politics KW - 1989- KW - Soviet Union KW - History KW - 1985-1991 KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Former Soviet republics KW - Economic policy KW - Ethnic relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-256) and index; U.S. democracy contributed to the collapse of Soviet communism / George Urban -- Soviet communism collapsed on its own / John P. Maynard -- Ronald Reagan's presidency caused the collapse of the Soviet Union / Edwin Meese III -- Ronald Reagan's presidency did not cause the collapse of the Soviet Union / Daniel Deudney & G. John Ikenberry -- Political reforms caused the collapse of the Soviet Union / Michael Mandelbaum -- Political reforms alone did not cause the collapse of the Soviet Union / Francis Fukuyama -- The breakup increases the threat of nuclear proliferation / Daniel Ellsberg -- The breakup may not increase the threat of nuclear proliferation / William Walker -- The breakup makes America the leader of the world / Elliott Abrams -- The breakup signals the end of America's world leadership / Zoltán Grossman -- The breakup marks the end of communism / George Bush -- The breakup does not mark the end of communism / Robert W. Lee -- U.S. foreign policy should focus on Russia / Dimitir K. Simes -- U.S. foreign policy should focus on all of the republics / Paul A. Goble -- Western aid to the republics will ensure U.S. security / Warren M. Christopher -- Western aid to the republics will not ensure U.S. security / Steven Rosefielde -- The U.S. should greatly reduce its nuclear arsenal / Center for Defense Information -- The U.S. should retain a significant nuclear arsenal / American Defense Institute -- Western aid would strengthen the republics' economies / Richard Nixon -- Western aid alone would not strengthen the republics' economies / Henry A. Kissinger -- Increased IMF intervention would strengthen the republics' economies / Jeffrey Sachs & David Lipton -- IMF intervention would not strengthen the republics' economies / Steve H. Hanke -- Socialism would strengthen the republics' economies / Mike Davidow -- Socialism would not strengthen the republics' economies / Guy Sorman -- Currency boards would strengthen the republics'economies / Alan Walters -- Privatization would strengthen the republics' economies / Leonid Grigoriev -- Employee ownership would strengthen the republics' economies / John Logue & Dan Bell -- Quelling nationalism is necessary / Natalia Narochnitskaya, Vladimir A. Babak & Victor Nadein-Rayevski -- Quelling nationalism is unnecessary / Philip Goldman, Gail Lapidus & Victor Zaslavsky -- Islamic fundamentalism must be repressed in the Central Asian republics / Boris Z. Rumer -- Islamic fundamentalism poses no threat to the Central Asian republics / Colin Barraclough -- U.S. policies could reduce conflict in the Central Asian republics / Firuz Kazemzadeh -- Uniting Ukraine and Russia would reduce conflict / Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- Democracy can reduce ethnic conflict / Rita Jalali & Seymour Martin Lipset N2 - A collection of articles debating issues related to the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the future of the region, and America's foreign policy there UR - http://www.archive.org/details/breakupofsovietu00barb UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1394559M ER -