Preface
Chapter One, Introduction
Chapter Two, Stalinism after the War: A Discourse of Danger,
1945-53
Chapter Three, Stalin's Foreign Policy: The Discourse of Danger
Abroad, 1945-53
Chapter Four, The Thaw at Home, 1953-58
Chapter Five, The Thaw Abroad, 1953-58
Chapter Six, Conclusions
References
Ted Hopf is Professor of Political Science at the National
University of Singapore. He is the author or editor of five books,
including Social Construction of International Politics: Identities
and Foreign nPolicies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999 (Cornell 2002), which
won the 2003 Marshall D. Shulman Award, presented by the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for the best book
published that year on the international
politics of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe. Hopf
received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1983 and Ph.D. from
Columbia University in 1989. He was a Fulbright Professor in the
autumn of 2001 at the European University
at St. Petersburg. His research has been supported by the Ford
Foundation, the Olin and Davis Centers at Harvard University, and
The Mershon Center at Ohio State University.
"Ted Hopf uses a sophisticated and nuanced societal constructivist
approach to illuminate Soviet understandings and motivations in the
years of the Cold War. By combining discursive analysis with a
serious investigation of institutions, he demonstrates that the
Stalinist state discourse of capitalist danger to state socialism,
which dominated in official views until Stalin's death in 1953, was
replaced by an alternative discourse of difference that allowed
for
greater variety and tolerance within the socialist camp. Taking
identities as fundamental to foreign policy, Hopf illustrates their
profound effects on the choices made by the Soviet leaders. From
his
unique perspective, he is able to go beyond conventional neorealist
accounts and lay out an original new approach to understanding the
origins of the Cold War. This is a work that breaks through the
impasses of old-style Sovietology and enlivens our debates and
understanding."--Rondald Grigor Suny, author of The Soviet
Experiment
"A uniquely audacious book that marshaled findings of Soviet
political, social, and even cultural history to demonstrate the
power of a Constructivist theory in the analysis of the Cold War.
The effort of an international relations theorist to break
interdisciplinary partitions and get to the nitty-gritty of
domestic scenery must be applauded."--Vladislav Zubok, author of A
Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to
Gorbachev
"In today's environment of overwhelming academic output, Hopf
stands out as a scholar whose research one is always inspired to
read and reflect upon. This book is no exception. It is a must-read
for its combination of IR theory and history, precisely because
history is not used simply for quick theoretical points. Instead,
Hopf devises a theoretical framework for understanding the history
of Soviet foreign policy." --Journal of Cold War Studies
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