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The Cold War and the 1984 Olympic Games : a Soviet-American surrogate war

Philip A. D'Agati (Author)
The Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games is explained as the result of a complex series of events and policies that culminated in a strategic decision to not participate in Los Angeles. Using IR framework, D'Agati developes and argues for the concept of surrogate wars as an alternative means for conflict between states

eBook, English, ©2013
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, ©2013