Cold War History
The End of the Cold War and The Third World: New Perspectives on Regional Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Artemy M. 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-...
The Crisis of Détente in Europe: From Helsinki to Gorbachev 1975-1985
1st Edition
Edited
By Leopoldo Nuti
December 06, 2010
This edited volume is the first detailed exploration of the last phase of the Cold War, taking a critical look at the crisis of détente in Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The transition from détente to a new phase of harsh confrontation and severe crises is an interesting, indeed crucial,...
European Integration and the Cold War: Ostpolitik-Westpolitik, 1965-1973
1st Edition
Edited
By N. Piers Ludlow
November 26, 2009
This edited volume uses newly released archival material to show linkages between the development of the European Union and the Cold War. Containing essays by well-known Cold War scholars such as Jussi Hanhimaki, Wilfried Loth and Piers Ludlow, the book looks at: France, where neither de Gaulle ...
The Baltic Question during the Cold War
1st Edition
Edited
By John Hiden, Vahur Made, David J. Smith
November 26, 2009
This edited volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the ‘Baltic question’, which arose within the context of the Cold War, and which has previously received little attention. This volume brings together a group of international specialists on the international history of northern Europe. It ...
Europe and the End of the Cold War: A Reappraisal
1st Edition
Edited
By Frédéric Bozo, Marie-Pierre Rey, N. Piers Ludlow, Leopoldo Nuti
July 24, 2009
This book seeks to reassess the role of Europe in the end of the Cold War and the process of German unification. Much of the existing literature on the end of the Cold War has focused primarily on the role of the superpowers and on that of the US in particular. This edited volume seeks to re-direct...
The Emergence of Détente in Europe: Brandt, Kennedy and the Formation of Ostpolitik
1st Edition
By Arne Hofmann
June 29, 2009
This book examines the key relationship between Willy Brandt (the former Mayor of West Berlin and future West German Chancellor) and the administration of President John F. Kennedy. Arne Hofmann focuses on the administration’s influence on the development of Brandt’s ‘policy of small steps’ and ...
The Cold War in the Middle East: Regional Conflict and the Superpowers 1967-73
1st Edition
Edited
By Nigel J. Ashton
March 05, 2009
This edited volume re-assesses the relationship between the United States, the Soviet Union and key regional players in waging and halting conflict in the Middle East between 1967 and 1973. These were pivotal years in the Arab-Israeli conflict, with the effects still very much in evidence today. ...