Before you leave...
Take 20% off your first order
20% off
Enter the code below at checkout to get 20% off your first order
Politics, Paradigms, and Intelligence Failures: Why So Few Predicted the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780765614643)
Vendor:
Ofira Seliktar
Product type:
Books
- $200.00
$200.00- $200.00
- Unit price
- per
Subtotal:
$200.00
Description
xWashington'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.
Author: Ofira Seliktar
ISBN-10: 0765614642
ISBN-13: 9780765614643
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2004
Pages: 281
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.24w x 0.95d
Author: Ofira Seliktar
ISBN-10: 0765614642
ISBN-13: 9780765614643
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2004
Pages: 281
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.24w x 0.95d
By Ofira Seliktar
xOfira 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.
Recently Viewed Products
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.