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Southwest Asia provides an excellent focal point at which to study the course and pace of global US-Soviet relations. In Iran and Afghanistan, superpower strategies and commitments have regularly intersected over the last half century. Moscow’s security and commercial interests have continuously assured the area more careful attention and higher valuation. In the Cold War competition of the superpowers, the high stakes for one prompted involvement by the other. Motivated above all by geopolitical concerns, the United States assumed in Iran and to a lesser extent in Afghanistan prominent political and economic obligations.
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See fuller discussion in Marvin G. Weinbaum, ‘The Soviets in Afghanistan: Risks, Costs, and Opportunities’, in Edward Kolodziej and Roger Kanet (eds), The Limits of Soviet Power in the Developing World (London: Macmillan, 1989), pp. 232–5.
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See Harold H. Saunders, ‘Regulating Soviet-US Competition and Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Arena, 1967–86’, in Alexander L. George, Philip J. Farley, and Alexander Dallin (eds), US-Soviet Security Cooperation: Achievements, Failures, Lessons (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 540.
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Weinbaum, M.G. (1991). Superpower Cooperation in Southwest Asia. In: Kanet, R.E., Kolodziej, E.A. (eds) The Cold War as Cooperation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11605-8_12
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