@inbook{38a745941b6e48b3be9ffb7b36cebe78,
title = "The pursuit of order, welfare and legitimacy: Explaining the end of the soviet union and the cold war",
abstract = "This chapter reviews prevailing theories as partial explanations for the transformations in international politics. It discusses a socio-historical approach as a more satisfactory explanation of these massive shifts in global power and governance. The chapter provides a provisional empirical test of a socio-historical explanation. Other analysts prefer political or moral factors as the critical determinants of the Cold War{\textquoteright}s end and of the Soviet Union{\textquoteright}s demise. Three key concepts - order, welfare and legitimacy -must be first understood as preconditions for a socio-historical explanation for the implosion of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. The Soviet Empire, command economy, and centralized communist rule were at sixes and sevens respectively with the nation-state system capitalist markets and nationally expressed democratic forces as the respective responses to the imperatives of order, welfare and legitimacy of the emerging world society.",
author = "Kolodziej, {Edward A.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Stephen J. Cimbala 1999. All rights reserved.",
year = "2018",
month = aug,
day = "6",
doi = "10.4324/9780429450143-2",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781138325920",
series = "Routledge Revivals",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "19--48",
editor = "Cimbala, {Stephen J}",
booktitle = "Mysteries of the Cold War",
address = "United States",
}