From the Shadows
The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9828451 |
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| Authors | David C Hendrickson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 145 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War, Annette Francine, 1997 |
| Venue | Foreign Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20047687 |
| OpenAlex | W1973021592 |
| Language | EN |
From a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, whose government service spanned six presidencies, this is the inside story of the role of America and the agency in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Gates provides descriptions of the atmosphere, culture and politics of the CIA and the National Security Council and draws candid appraisals of presidents and key officials. Among his many disclosures are: how Carter laid the foundations for Reagan's covert wars against the Soviets; CIA predictions of a conservative coup against Gorbachev and the collapse of the Soviet Union; CIA and KGB black operations against each other; the secret relationship between Pope John Paul II and the Soviets; and the three secret CIA-KGB summits
Cold war · Economic history · Insider · Political science · Politics · History · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Law
US foreign policy under Reagan and Bush
Just GRIT and Bear It
Overt action
Political theory and the CIA in the US imperium
The personal and the political
U.S. Intelligence Estimates of the Soviet Collapse
The Perils of Shallow Theory
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Doubles Troubles
Behind the Intelligence Failure in Iran
Leadership of the U.S. Intelligence Community
Solidarity, the CIA, and Western Technology
The CIA Under Clinton
Lessons Learned from the CIA's Assessment of the Soviet Economy
CIA's Medical and Psychological Analysis Center (MPAC) and the Health of Foreign Leaders
The Impact of CIA's Organizational Culture on Its Estimates Under William Casey
Tolkachev Evidence Still Skimpy
The Soviet–American War Scare of the 1980s
What Went Wrong in Afghanistan
McJihad
The Taliban and Their Machiavellian Moment
The Ogaden War and the Demise of Détente
Neoconservative intellectuals and the limitations of governing The Reagan administration and the demise of the Cold War
Intelligence and Strategy
Unveiling imperialism
Trust and Missed Opportunities in International Relations
In the Eye of the Beholder
Deal or No Deal? The End of the Cold War and the U.S. Offer to Limit Nato Expansion
Fighting Terrorism in Southern Asia
Dealers and Brokers in Civil Wars
Perpetuating U.S. Preeminence
Foregoing Limited Force
Geopolitics over Proliferation
Early Warning, Ethnopolitical Conflicts, and the United Nations
Asia and the security of the South Pacific's Island states
The Soviet Union
The United States and the End of the Cold War
Slouching Toward Nuclear War
How Afghanistan was broken
Following START
Fear, Loathing, and Cracks in Reagan’s Mirror Images
Propaganda Broadcasts and Cold War Politics
Explaining the End of the Cold War
The Collapse of East European Communism and the Repercussions within the Soviet Union (Part 2)
Precluded or Precedent-Setting? The “Nato Enlargement Question” in the Triangular Bonn-Washington-Moscow Diplomacy of 1990–1991
The Cold War Origins of the U.S. Central Command
The August 1991 Coup and Its Impact on Soviet Politics
Skepticism and Stability
Strategy, Ideology, and Human Rights
Communist Muslims”
When truth is stranger than fiction
Perestroika and the End of the Cold War
Between Political Rhetoric and Realpolitik Calculations
Old politics, new diplomacy
Another Transatlantic Split? American and European Narratives and the End of the Cold War
Making Feminist Sense out of ‘Charlie Wilson's War’
Intelligence and diplomacy in the security dilemma
Deconstructing ‘declinism’
Merely an above-average product of the Soviet nomenklatura’? Assessing leadership in the Cold War's end
Framers, founders, and reformers
Oil Fueled? The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Russia's proposal for a new security system
U.S. support for Ukraine’s liberation during the Cold War
The Soviet Non-Invasion of Poland in 1980-1981 and the End of the Cold War
The Demise of the Soviet Bloc
Insurgents, accidental guerrillas and valley-ism
Structures, Processes, and Communication in the Transformation of the Carter Administration’s Foreign Policy
The Ethics of America's Afghan War
And Post-Cold War Policymaking
Pas De Trois
Did Reagan Make Gorbachev Possible
Leading Change in Public Organizations
Intelligence Estimates of Nuclear Terrorism
Through a Glass, Darkly
Turning Against the CIA
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