Creating the Second Cold War: The Discourse of Politics

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Part One: Context
	Introduction
	Chapter 1: Social theory and security discourse
		'Postmodernism' and global crisis
		Social theory: discourse
		Social theory: ideology and hegemony
		The hegemony of security discourse
		Reading security discourse
	Chapter 2: Discourse and otherness
		The Other: identity, difference
		The Other: time, space, geopolitics
		The Other and world order
		Europeans and others
		Otherness and US geopolitical discourse
	Chapter 3: Security and geopolitics
		Political theory, states and security
		Geopolitics, space and power
		Classical geopolitics
		Geopolitics and containment
		Geopolitical discourse
	Chapter 4: Threat discourse
		Containment militarism and the 'Soviet threat'
		'Common Sense and the Common Danger'
		'What is the Soviet Union Up To?'
		CPD discourse
Part Two: Text
	Introduction
	Chapter 5: Sovietology
		Sovietology and totalitarianism
		CPD Sovietology
		Soviet-US differences
		Geography and patrimonialism
		Militarism and Soviet foreign policy
		Totalitarianism rehabilitated
	Chapter 6: Power politics
		International relations and realism
		Detente and appeasement
		The rationale for realism
		Realism and geopolitics
		Realism as geopolitics
	Chapter 7: Geopolitics
		Containment and geopolitics
		Geopolitics and superpower rivalry
		Mackinder updated
		The geopolitics of Soviet Empire
		The ideology of geopolitics
	Chapter 8: Nuclear strategy
		Strategy and deterrence
		The CPD against SALT
		Soviet war-fighting strategy
			1. Pre-emption
			2. Quantitative superiority
			3. Counterforce targeting
			4. Combined-arms operations
			5. Defence
		Sovietology and strategy
		SALT, geopolitics and strategy
		The theory of victory
		Nuclear war-fighting strategies: NUTS to DEAD
Part Three: Contra-text
	Introduction
	Chapter 9: The geopolitics of security discourse
		CPD geographs
		The CPD and the Reagan administration
		Space, security, hegemony
	Chapter 10: Critical geopolitics
		Discourses of war and peace
		Political space and dissent discourse
		Challenging hegemony: dealignment
		Challenging hegemony: security and development
		Critical geopolitics
Bibliography
Index