Cold War History
German Reunification: A Multinational History
1st Edition
Edited
By Frédéric Bozo, Andreas Rödder, Mary Elise Sarotte
January 22, 2018
This book provides a multinational history of German reunification based on empirical work by leading scholars. The reunification of Germany in 1989-90 was one of the most unexpected and momentous events of the twentieth century. Embedded within the wider process of the end of the Cold War, it ...
Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War: Between or Within the Blocs?
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Bott, Jussi M. Hanhimaki, Janick Schaufelbuehl, Marco Wyss
May 25, 2017
This book sheds new light on the foreign policies, roles, and positions of neutral states and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the global Cold War. The volume places the neutral states and the NAM in the context of the Cold War and demonstrates the links between the East, the West, and the ...
The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Critical Reappraisal
1st Edition
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By Len Scott, R. Gerald Hughes
November 07, 2016
This volume brings together a collection of leading international experts to revisit and review our understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis, via a critical reappraisal of some of the key texts. In October 1962, humankind came close to the end of its history. The risk of catastrophe is now ...
Britain, Germany and the Cold War: The Search for a European Détente 1949–1967
1st Edition
By R. Gerald Hughes
September 11, 2014
This well-researched book details the ambiguity in British policy towards Europe in the Cold War as it sought to pursue détente with the Soviet Union whilst upholding its commitments to its NATO allies. From the early 1950s, Britain pursued a dual policy of strengthening the West whilst seeking ...
The Globalization of the Cold War: Diplomacy and Local Confrontation, 1975-85
1st Edition
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By Max Guderzo, Bruna Bagnato
September 11, 2014
This book focuses on the globalisation of the Cold War in the years 1975-85, highlighting the transformation from bipolar US-Soviet competition to global confrontation. Offering a detailed analysis of this fundamental shift that occurred during this period, as well as the interconnections of this ...
The Iran-Iraq War: New International Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Nigel Ashton, Bryan Gibson
September 11, 2014
This volume offers a wide-ranging examination of the Iran–Iraq War (1980–88), featuring fresh regional and international perspectives derived from recently available new archival material. Three decades ago Iran and Iraq became embroiled in a devastating eight-year war which served to re-define the...
The Military Balance in the Cold War: US Perceptions and Policy, 1976-85
1st Edition
By David Walsh
July 17, 2014
This book examines the impact of American perceptions of the military balance between the United States and the Soviet Union during the key period of 1976-1985. That decade witnessed the decline of the US-Soviet détente and the resurgence of superpower confrontation, often called the ‘Second Cold ...
NATO and Western Perceptions of the Soviet Bloc: Alliance Analysis and Reporting, 1951-69
1st Edition
By Evanthis Hatzivassiliou
May 13, 2014
This book examines the NATO reports on the Soviet bloc's political and economic system, from 1951 to the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the beginning of detente. As part of the wider history of Cold War Alliances, the detailed assessments of the NATO experts regarding the ...
The Making of Détente: Eastern Europe and Western Europe in the Cold War, 1965-75
1st Edition
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By Wilfried Loth, George Soutou
April 28, 2014
Containing essays by leading Cold War scholars, such as Wilfried Loth, Geir Lundestad and Seppo Hentilä, this volume offers a broad-ranging examination of the history of détente in the Cold War. The ten years from 1965 to 1975 marked a deep transformation of the bipolar international system of the...
Human Rights in Europe during the Cold War
1st Edition
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By Rasmus Mariager, Karl Molin, Kjersti Brathagen
April 18, 2014
This book provides an overview of the establishment, dispersion and effects of human rights in Europe during the Cold War. The struggle for human rights did not begin at the end of the Second World War. For centuries, political associations, religious societies and individuals had been fighting ...
Mao, Stalin and the Korean War: Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s
1st Edition
By Shen Zhihua
November 08, 2013
This book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War. This volume is based on a translation of Shen Zihua’s best-selling Chinese-language book, which broke the mainland Chinese taboo on publishing ...
Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in the Early Cold War: Reconciliation, comradeship, confrontation, 1953-1957
1st Edition
By Svetozar Rajak
October 03, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive insight into one of the key episodes of the Cold War – the process of reconciliation between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. At the time, this process had shocked the World as much as the violent break-up of their relations did in 1948. This book provides an ...