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The Impact of the Korean War on the Cold War
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Theories of the cold war that stress the imperatives of the American domestic politico-economic system or the requirements of bipolarity are undermined by the argument that the Korean war strongly influenced international history and indeed brought about most of the characteristics which we associate with the cold war. Without Korea, U.S. policy would have been very different, and there were no events on the horizon which could have been functional substitutes for the war. The international or the American domestic system may have "needed" high defense budgets, the globalization of American commitments, and the militarization of NATO, but these patterns arose only in the wake of Korea. To explain the cold war in terms of such requirements is therefore inadequate.
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- Jervis, R.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Jervis, Robert
- Venue
- Journal of Conflict Resolution
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1980-12
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 563-592
- ISSN
- 0022-0027 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-8766
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- 110
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- 34
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- journal article
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- en
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- closed
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- Journal of Conflict Resolution (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Keywords
- Korean War, Cold War origins, bipolarity, US foreign policy, defense spending, international history
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