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 ...
Origins of the North Korean Garrison State: The People’s Army and the Korean War
1st Edition
By Youngjun Kim
January 03, 2019
This book investigates the origins of the North Korean garrison state by examining the development of the Korean People’s Army and the legacies of the Korean War. Despite its significance, there are very few books on the Korean People’s Army with North Korean primary sources being difficult to ...
The Trilateral Commission and Global Governance: Informal Elite Diplomacy, 1972-82
1st Edition
By Dino Knudsen
September 10, 2018
This book provides the first analysis of the Trilateral Commission and its role in global governance and contemporary diplomacy. In 1973, David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission. Involving highly influential people from business and politics in the US, ...
International Summitry and Global Governance: The rise of the G7 and the European Council, 1974-1991
1st Edition
Edited
By Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, Federico Romero
August 23, 2018
This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. Summit meetings of heads of government have become 'banal' in today's world. Yet they are a relatively recent practice ...
Churchill and the Anglo-American Special Relationship
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan P. Dobson, Steve Marsh
July 30, 2018
This book examines Winston Churchill’s role in the creation and development of the Anglo–American special relationship. Drawing together world leading and emergent scholars, this volume offers a critical celebration of Churchill’s contribution to establishing the Anglo–American special relationship...