Soviet Military Assistance: An Empirical Perspective by Mott, William H.

Soviet Military Assistance: An Empirical Perspective (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313310225)

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Soviet Military Assistance: An Empirical Perspective by Mott, William H.

Soviet Military Assistance: An Empirical Perspective

$95.00
Soviet Military Assistance: An Empirical Perspective by Mott, William H.

Soviet Military Assistance: An Empirical Perspective

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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The second of a series, this study analyzes the historical relationships between the provision of military assistance and success in achieving Soviet aims during the Cold War. Mott looks at Soviet donor-recipient relationships across seventeen case studies to identify the generalities or regularities that relate the classical wartime relationship to achievement of donor Cold War aims. He refines the four critical features of the wartime donor-recipient relationship--convergence of donor and recipient aims, donor control, commitment of donor military forces, and coherence of donor policies and strategies--to reflect the unique political economic constraints of the Cold War. Findings challenge orthodox separation of politics, history, military science, and economics, and refute the common wisdom that economic aid is a more effective policy instrument than military assistance.

Mott contends that both successes and failures of Cold War Soviet military assistance were predictable, explicit consequences of donor policies and strategies and of convergence of donor and recipient aims. This book presents a pattern for both policy development and theoretical analysis in which military assistance is a viable, robust policy option and bilateral relationship with a clear set of requirements, features, processes, and predictable results. Its primary methodology is the search for uniformities across historical observations through low-level, ordinary, multivariate regressions. Each chapter focuses on Soviet military assistance in a region and refines the relevant features of the observed relationships into a tentative pattern for comparison with other regions.

Author: William H. Mott IV
ISBN-10: 031331022X
ISBN-13: 9780313310225
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2001
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.42w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 255
Choice 11/01/2001 pg. 590
By William H. Mott IV
By William H. Mott IV
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WILLIAM H. MOTT, IV, teaches International Relations at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts./e He has spent all of his adult life in public service as a military and diplomatic officer, as a consultant in international business, and as a teacher and scholar. In a 30-year career in the U.S. Army with dual foci on command and military diplomacy, he observed and analyzed the behaviors of governments under stress and in control and managed U.S. military assistance in both Europe and Asia. While teaching at the British Royal Military College of Science and consulting, he studied and wrote extensively on defense industrial collaboration.

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