Superpower Conflict Resolution - Lessons for the Future
Date
1991
Authors
Katz, Mark N.
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Publisher
SAGE Publications
Abstract
Despite the significant progress that the United States
and the USSR have made in cooperating to resolve regional conflicts,
many of these conflicts continue. One reason for this is that the Soviet
and American governments have had differing expectations regarding
what the outcome of superpower conflict resolution efforts should
be. Yet even when Soviet and American aims are similar, there are
other obstacles to conflict resolution. Among these are the lack of
commitment to democracy on the part of one or more of the local
antagonists in regional conflicts, and involvement by other external
parties in the conflicts. There is no guarantee that the superpowers
can successfully resolve regional conflicts even if they adopt a common
approach to conflict resolution, but adopting a common approach
may at least allow Washington and Moscow to unlink their overall
relations from those conflicts that cannot be resolved.
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Keywords
United States, Soviet Union, Foreign policy, International relations