Politics, Paradigms, and Intelligence Failures: Why So Few Predicted the Collapse of the Soviet Union - Hardcover

Seliktar, Ofira

 
9780765614643: Politics, Paradigms, and Intelligence Failures: Why So Few Predicted the Collapse of the Soviet Union

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Washington's failure to foresee the collapse of its superpower rival ranks high in the pantheon of predictive failures. Drawing on declassified documents, interviews, and contemporaneous literature, this book analyses this predictive failure at the paradigmatic, foreign policy, and intelligence levels.

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Ofira Seliktar earned a bachelor's degree in political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed her doctorate in political science at the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow. She teaches at Gratz College and Temple University and is the author of several books and many articles on the Middle East and predictive failures in intelligence. Failing the Crystal Ball Test: The Carter Administration and the Fundamentalist Revolution in Iran (2000) explores the American failure to predict the Khomeini revolution. Seliktar is currently working on a study of the politics of prediction and the war in Iraq.

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ISBN 10:  0765614650 ISBN 13:  9780765614650
Verlag: Routledge, 2004
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