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The Impact of Personality on the End of the Cold War: A Counterfactual Analysis
Author(s) -
Greenstein Fred I.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
political psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.419
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-9221
pISSN - 0162-895X
DOI - 10.1111/0162-895x.00089
Subject(s) - counterfactual thinking , cold war , politics , personality , psychology , political science , social psychology , law
The end of the Cold War is examined with respect to the impact of Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and their respective foreign secretaries. This discussion yields an approach to the systematic examination of counterfactual questions about the impact of political actors on historical outcomes.