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Post‐cold war national security policy: A survey of U.S. Government print and internet literature, 1990–1995

Bert Chapman (Government publications coordinator/ reference librarian, assistant professor of library science, Purdue University Libraries, West Lafayette, Indiana)

Reference Services Review

ISSN: 0090-7324

Article publication date: 1 March 1996

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Abstract

The conclusion of the Cold War rivalry between the United States and former Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s created new areas of opportunity and concern for U.S. national security policy. No longer menaced by the threat of nuclear war from Soviet military might, the United States emerged from the Cold War as the world's preeminent military power. Successful developments such as this often produce elation in the pronouncements of U.S. officials as a recent Clinton administration declaration demonstrates:

Citation

Chapman, B. (1996), "Post‐cold war national security policy: A survey of U.S. Government print and internet literature, 1990–1995", Reference Services Review, Vol. 24 No. 3, pp. 37-60. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049287

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1996, MCB UP Limited

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