Cold War History
The European Community and the Crises of the 1960s: Negotiating the Gaullist Challenge
1st Edition
By N. Piers Ludlow
September 21, 2007
A new and detailed study of the European Community's development between 1963 and 1969, with a special focus on the struggle between France and its EC partners over the purpose, structure and membership of the emerging European Community. On all three, French President Charles de Gaulle held ...
The Third Indochina War: Conflict between China, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1972-79
1st Edition
Edited
By Odd Arne Westad, Sophie Quinn-Judge
June 23, 2006
This new collection explores the origins and key issues of the Third Indochina War, which began in 1979. Drawing on unique documentation from all sides, leading contributors reinterpret and demystify the long-term and immediate causes of the Vietnamese-Cambodian and Sino-Vietnamese ...
Soviet-Vietnam Relations and the Role of China 1949-64: Changing Alliances
1st Edition
By Mari Olsen
January 30, 2006
This new book analyzes how the Soviet leadership evaluated developments in Soviet-Vietnamese relations in the years from 1949 to 1964. Focusing on how Soviet leaders actually perceived China’s role in Vietnam relative to the Soviet role, it shows how these perceptions influenced the...
Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War: Issues, Interpretations, Periodizations
1st Edition
Edited
By Silvio Pons, Federico Romero
December 23, 2004
As the activities of individuals, organizations, and nations increasingly occur in cyberspace, the security of those activities is becoming a growing concern. Political, economic and military leaders must manage and reduce the level of risk associated with threats from hostile states, malevolent ...
The Last Decade of the Cold War: From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Olav Njolstad
May 18, 2004
The 1980s was a period of almost unprecedented rivalry and tension between the two main actors in the East-West conflict, the United States and the Soviet Union. Why and how that conflict first escalated and thereafter, in an amazingly swift process, was reversed and brought to its peaceful ...
Across the Blocs: Exploring Comparative Cold War Cultural and Social History
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick Major, Rana Mitter
February 20, 2004
This book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history. It makes cross-cultural comparisons of the socio cultural aspects of the Cold War across the East/West block divide, dealing with issues including broadcasting,...
Europe, Cold War and Coexistence, 1955-1965
1st Edition
Edited
By WILFRED LOTH
February 05, 2004
This title examines the role of the Europeans in the Cold War during the 'Khrushchev Era'. It was a period marked by the struggle for a regulated co-existence in a world of blocs, an initial arrangement to find a temporary arrangement failed due to German desires to quickly overcome the status quo....
British and American Anti-communism Before the Cold War
1st Edition
By Markku Ruotsila
June 01, 2001
This work examines in a comparative historical way the socialist, liberal and conservative strands of Anglo-American anticommunist thought before the Cold War. In so doing, this book provides us with an intellectual pre-history of Cold War attitudes and policy positions....
Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Odd Arne Westad
September 01, 2000
Since the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe. This volume takes stock of where these new materials have taken us in our understanding of what the cold war was about and how we should study it....