Cold War History
Britain, Détente, and the Helsinki CSCE: 'Fathers of the Final Act’
1st Edition
By Kai Hebel
September 15, 2025
This book offers the first in-depth account of the United Kingdom’s contribution to the rapprochement between East and West that culminated in the successful negotiation of the Helsinki Final Act of 1975. Britain’s role in this historic achievement has been understudied and understated. This book ...
Britain, the US and China’s Anti-Soviet Stance in the Cold War: Containment and Trade, 1977-1980
1st Edition
By Bruno Pierri
December 18, 2024
This book shows how international trade was a key part of the classic Western policy of containment towards the Soviet Union in the Cold War in the late 1970s. Trade and containment may summarise the new relation that communist China moulded with the capitalistic West in the late 1970s. Ideology ...
Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s: The Opening Up
1st Edition
By Aleksandra Komornicka
December 18, 2024
This book offers an international reading of the Polish socialist regime’s history in the 1970s, and its opening up to the West. It bridges Poland’s socialist domestic history with critical developments of the global and European 1970s, including détente in the Cold War, western European ...
British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban: Squaring the Circle of Defence and Arms Control, 1974-82
1st Edition
By John Walker
October 09, 2024
This book provides an overview of how the UK tried to maintain and modernize its strategic and tactical nuclear weapons during 1974-82, whilst also pursuing a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. The core question addressed in the book is how a test ban treaty would impact on the reliability and...
NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative: A Transatlantic History of the Star Wars Programme
1st Edition
Edited
By Luc-André Brunet
May 27, 2024
This book explores the largely neglected issue of responses to the US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI, or the 'Star Wars' missile defence programme) across NATO. The chapters here explore the reactions of different Western allies to the announcement of the SDI in 1983 and especially the 1985 ...
Technological Innovation, Globalization and the Cold War: A Transnational History
1st Edition
Edited
By Wolfgang Mueller, Peter Svik
May 27, 2024
This volume focuses on the interconnections between the Cold War, technological innovation and globalization. Although the consequences of globalization have received ample attention in both academia and the public discourse, only limited attention has so far been given to the factors that ...
European Socialist Regimes' Fateful Engagement with the West: National Strategies in the Long 1970s
1st Edition
Edited
By Angela Romano, Federico Romero
August 01, 2022
This edited volume analyses European socialist countries’ strategy of engagement with the West and the European Economic Community in the long 1970s. The book focuses on a time when the socialist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe banked their hopes for prosperity and stability on enhanced ...
US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa: A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order, 1988-1994
1st Edition
By Flavia Gasbarri
December 13, 2021
This book investigates the end of the Cold War in Africa and its impact on post-Cold War US foreign policy in the continent. The fall of the Berlin Wall is widely considered the end of the Cold War; however, it documents just one of the many "ends", since the Cold War was a global conflict. This ...
Secrecy, Public Relations and the British Nuclear Debate: How the UK Government Learned to Talk about the Bomb, 1970-83
1st Edition
By Daniel Salisbury
September 30, 2021
This book constitutes an original archival history of government secrecy, public relations and the debate surrounding nuclear weapons in Britain from 1970 to 1983.The book contrasts the secrecy and near-silence of the Heath, Wilson and Callaghan governments on nuclear issues in the 1970s with the ...
The Greek Junta and the International System: A Case Study of Southern European Dictatorships, 1967-74
1st Edition
Edited
By Antonis Klapsis, Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, Effie G. H. Pedaliu
September 30, 2021
This book examines the international dimensions of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967 to 1974 and uses it as a case study to evaluate the major shifts occurring in the international system during a period of rapid change.The policies of the major nation-states in both East and West were ...
America and Romania in the Cold War: A Differentiated Détente, 1969-80
1st Edition
By Paschalis Pechlivanis
December 18, 2020
This book examines the US foreign policy of differentiation towards the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe as it was implemented by various administrations towards Ceausescu’s Romania from 1969 to 1980.Drawing from multi-archival research from both US and Romanian sources, this is the first ...
New Perspectives on the End of the Cold War: Unexpected Transformations?
1st Edition
Edited
By Bernhard Blumenau, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Barbara Zanchetta
August 14, 2020
This collection of essays makes a significant contribution to the historiography of the end of the Cold War. Research on the causes and consequences of the end of the Cold War is constantly growing. Initially, it was dominated by fairly simplistic, and often politically motivated, debates revolving...