Détente, Period of the easing of
Cold War tensions between the US. and the Soviet Union from
1967 to 1979. The era was a time of increased trade and cooperation with the Soviet
Union and the signing of the SALT treaties. Relations cooled again with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
What did the SALT Treaty do - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks The first agreements, known as
SALT I and
SALT II, were signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in
1972 and 1979, respectively, and were intended to restrain the arms race in strategic (long-range or intercontinental) ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons. Nixon (69-74) and brezhnev (64-81) IR- Lec. 9th Lec Week 9 actually
but prof preferred week 11
-since mid 1990 resurgence in Marxist approach to intl. pol. • now that Soviet Union was over, now they can go back to real Marxism since they’d not perceive Soviet Marxism as real one
• people arguing marxist idea would now be useful to approach,
advent of world capitalism,
• marxism making comeback to intl
politics, new actors of marxism,
• there has been ongoing debate vigorously in upholding capitalism as major holding structure inn until politics
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-major concern of Marxist in intl : histroy of class conflict • marxist scholars think that getting involved fro more equitable society
• in struggle between capitalism, influencing politics and social relations
-How to transform capitalism • relations of production, mode of production major concern
• Marxist theory thinks of social world as totality
• it does not underline importance of different
social sciences • it beeves in totality of social science
• rather than talking bout individuality, economic relations, history, politics, all require a holistic approach , and the borders btw disciples need to be terminated according to Marxist vie
• this idea that social world analysed as totality
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acc to marxists, we underline that they aim to take the basic social transformations as a whole in understanding social events
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