Cold War History
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
The End of the Cold War and The Third World: New Perspectives on Regional Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Artemy Kalinovsky, Sergey Radchenko
March 21, 2013
This book brings together recent research on the end of the Cold War in the Third World and engages with ongoing debates about regional conflicts, the role of great powers in the developing world, and the role of international actors in conflict resolution. Most of the recent scholarship on the ...
Economic Statecraft during the Cold War: European Responses to the US Trade Embargo
1st Edition
By Frank Cain
November 01, 2012
Discussing a rarely researched aspect of the Cold War, this volume uses new material to examine how the United States trade embargo on the Soviet Union and communist China severed relationships with Europe, particularly focusing on Great Britain. In the late 1940s, the US government stopped nearly...
Macmillan, Khrushchev and the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1960
1st Edition
By Kitty Newman
November 01, 2012
This new study casts fresh light on the roles of Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev and their efforts to achieve a compromise settlement on the pivotal Berlin Crisis. Drawing on previously unseen documents and secret archive material, Kitty Newman demonstrates how the British Prime Minister ...
US Internal Security Assistance to South Vietnam: Insurgency, Subversion and Public Order
1st Edition
By William Rosenau
September 10, 2012
This new study of American support to the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam illuminates many contemporary events and foreign policies. During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, the United States used foreign police and paramilitary assistance to combat the spread of communist ...
Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power, Black Liberation
1st Edition
Edited
By Sue Onslow
March 28, 2012
This edited volume examines the complexities of the Cold War in Southern Africa and uses a range of archives to develop a more detailed understanding of the impact of the Cold War environment upon the processes of political change. In the aftermath of European decolonization, the struggle between ...
Greece and the Cold War: Front Line State, 1952-1967
1st Edition
By Evanthis Hatzivassiliou
November 15, 2011
This is the first study to present a comprehensive analysis of Greek foreign and internal policy during the Cold War, covering the key period from the country’s accession to NATO in 1952 until the imposition of the colonels’ dictatorship in 1967. Clearly divided into three parts: 1952-...