Shifrinson Publishes Chapter on the End of the Cold War
Joshua Shifrinson, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published a chapter on linkage politics and the end of the Cold War in a recent Oxford University Press volume discussing the logic of cross-domain deterrence.
Shifrinson’s chapter, entitled “Linkage Politics: Managing the End of the Cold War,” was published in Cross-Domain Deterrence: Strategy in an Era of Complexity (Oxford University Press, 2019).
In the chapter, Shifrinson examines U.S. efforts to blend economic and diplomatic threats in order to deter a Soviet military intervention during the 1989 Eastern European Revolutions, drawing on an array of archival documents.
Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson’s teaching and research interests focus on the intersection of international security and diplomatic history, particularly the rise and fall of great powers and the origins of grand strategy. He has special expertise in great power politics since 1945 and U.S. engagement in Europe and Asia. Shifrinson’s first book, Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts (Cornell University Press, 2018) builds on extensive archival research focused on U.S. and Soviet foreign policy after 1945 to explain why some rising states challenge and prey upon declining great powers, while others seek to support and cooperate with declining states.