Superpower Detente by Michael Bowker

Superpower Detente by Michael Bowker

Superpower Detente is an outstanding assessment of the highs and lows in the relationship between the two superpowers in the 1970s, and the prospects for a continuing detente between them in the 1980s. This thorough examination of the 1970s reminds us that improvements early in that decade gave way to stalemate and the demise of detente. The early 1970s saw the most far reaching moves toward detente since the inception of the Cold War. But, Bowker and Williams suggest, the coincidence of interests between the superpowers hid divergent conceptions of what detente was and what kind of behaviour it required.

`Although the Cold War is over and the Soviet Union no longer exists, this book is still important as it provides a thoughtful and critical analysis of the events that can be used as a lesson for today′s relations among states′ - Muslim World Book Review `.. the book is a timely work, deserving of a wide readership... It is encouraging that in a period when `contemporary history′ has gone into something of a decline... a book of this sort is written. The objective approach of the two authors, their willingness to analyse Soviet policies as well as those of the US... their clarity of expression and their breadth of vision are also to be admired... It is a book well-written, well structured and well-judged.′ Millennium

Michael Bowker has worked in surface science and catalysis for the last 25 years and has approximately 250 publications. He has worked in both industry (ICI) and academia. He leads the Heterogeneous Catalysis and Surface Science group in Cardiff, consisting of nine academic members of staff and 70 researchers. He founded the Wolfson Nanoscience Laboratory at Cardiff in 2006 and is Deputy Director of the recently established Cardiff Catalysis Institute. His research has focused on adsorption and surface reactivity, ranging from theo-retical studies of the effect of sintering, to selective oxidation catalysis, to studies of adsorption on well-defined surfaces. He has used STM for 20 years to study various aspects of surface structure and reactivity, pioneering the use of high temperature STM in this field. The group continues to focus on aspects of surface science and catalysis, now extending to nanoengineering and bio-surface interactions.

Philip R. Davies studied chemistry and mathematics in Southampton University. Undergraduate projects on surface electrochemistry with Prof. Laurence Peter and the modelling of adsorption at fractal surfaces with Professor Dominic Tildesley stopped him from becoming an accountant and led to his interest in surface processes. After graduating with double honours in 1986, he moved to Cardiff to study reactions at surfaces with surface-sensitive spectroscopy under the supervision of Prof. Wyn Roberts. After being awarded a PhD, he was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Chemistry at Cardiff and continued to study surface reaction mechanisms and particularly the role of short lived intermediates. Since 1997, his interests have centred largely on the influence of local atomic structure on reaction mechanisms studied with scanning probe microscopies.

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ISBN 13	9780803980426
ISBN 10	0803980426
Title	Superpower Detente
Author	Michael Bowker
Series	Riia
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	1988-08-23
Number of pages	292
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