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Author : Lawrence Aronsen,Martin Kitchen
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014614963
Author : Ralph B. Levering,Vladimir O. Pechatnov,Verena Botzenhart-Viehe,Earl C. Edmondson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742576414
Debating the Origins of the Cold War examines the coming of the Cold War through Americans' and Russians' contrasting perspectives and actions. In two engaging essays, the authors demonstrate that a huge gap existed between the democratic, capitalist, and global vision of the post-World War II peace that most Americans believed in and the dictatorial, xenophobic, and regional approach that characterized Soviet policies. The authors argue that repeated failures to find mutually acceptable solutions to concrete problems led to the rapid development of the Cold War, and they conclude that, given the respective concerns and perspectives of the time, both superpowers were largely justified in their courses of action. Supplemented by primary sources, including documents detailing Soviet espionage in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s and correspondence between Premier Josef Stalin and Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov during postwar meetings, this is the first book to give equal attention to the U.S. and Soviet policies and perspectives.
Author : David Reynolds
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300105622
Although the Cold War is over, the writing of its history has only just begun. This book presents an analysis of the origins of the Cold War in the decade after the Second World War, discussing the development of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers and the reactions of the Western European states to the growing Soviet-American rivalry. Drawing on recently opened archives from the former Soviet Union as well as on existing research largely unavailable in English, distinguished authorities from each of the countries discussed provide new insight into the Cold War and into the Europe that has been molded by it. The book begins with an overview of United States Cold War policy after the war and a pioneering post-communist examination of Russian involvement. The next chapters focus on the other two members of the wartime alliance, Britain and France, for which the Cold War was interwoven with concerns such as the maintenance of empire and the continued fear of Germany. The book then examines the vanquished countries of World War II, Italy and Germany, who--particularly in the case of divided Germany--were struggling to recover their international status and come to terms with their past. The last part of the book considers how the small states--Benelux and Scandinavia--forged new groupings in the search for security, even though conflicts of national interest still persisted between them. The authors not only show the impact of superpower policies on each country but also reveal the many ways in which West European states were active participants in Cold War politics, trying to draw the Americans into Europe and shaping the blocs that emerged. The book sheds light on the European Community (in many ways a response to uneasiness about Germany) and on NATO, whose purpose was once described as keeping "the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down."
Author : Patrick Major,Rana Mitter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135755669
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, public opinion, and the production and consumption of popular culture.
Author : Geir Lundestad
Publisher : Scandinavian University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 8200210928
This book contains four comparative studies of U.S. foreign policy after World War II. The first deals with the way in which American historians have analyzed the origins of the Cold War and argues that moralism, presentism, exceptionalism, and provincialism have been allowed too large a role in such analyses. Another study looks at the American "empire" and compares the U.S. role in the world after 1945 with that of the Soviet Union during the same period and that of Britain in the nineteenth century. The other studies examine the unique qualities and pendulum swings in American foreign policy and American and British policies toward Eastern Europe since World War II.
Author : Tobias Hochscherf,Christoph Laucht,Andrew Plowman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845456467
The Allied agreement after the Second World War did not only partition Germany, it divided the nation along the fault-lines of a new bipolar world order. This inner border made Germany a unique place to experience the Cold War, and the “German question” in this post-1945 variant remained inextricably entwined with the vicissitudes of the Cold War until its end. This volume explores how social and cultural practices in both German states between 1949 and 1989 were shaped by the existence of this inner border, putting them on opposing sides of the ideological divide between the Western and Eastern blocs, as well as stabilizing relations between them. This volume’s interdisciplinary approach addresses important intersections between history, politics, and culture, offering an important new appraisal of the German experiences of the Cold War.
Author : Paul Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351924528
This timely book analyses how different nations, religions and cultures justify the waging of war, and what limits they place on its use. The study includes the major world religions such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam and specific countries and regions including Russia, China and Africa. The case studies shed new light on the causes and justifications of current conflicts, providing a valuable source for those wishing to understand how different people around the world view the issue of war. The book crosses disciplinary boundaries and thus will be welcomed by scholars of international relations, philosophy, religion and history.
Author : Robert J. McMahon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198859543
Vividly written and based on up-to-date scholarship, this title provides an interpretive overview of the international history of the Cold War.
Author : Olav Njølstad
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 0714685399
The last decade of the Cold War witnessed the transformation of world politics with the collapse of one-party Communist rule in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. This book explains how it happened and why.
Author : Gregory Mahler
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0205701272
MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab.com and receive immediate access to thousands of full articles from the EBSCO ContentSelect database. In addition, MySearchLab offers extensive content on the research process itself–including tips on how to navigate and maximize time in the campus library, a step-by-step guide on writing a research paper, and instructions on how to finish an academic assignment with endnotes and bibliography. For freshman/sophomore-level courses in Comparative Politics, World Politics, as well as Introduction to Politics with a comparative focus. Written in aclear, jargon-free style, Comparative Politics emphasizes political institutions and behavior—rather than on abstract conceptual frameworks. This approach makes the text more accessible to introductory students than most other texts on comparative politics. It features both a cross-national approach which focuses helping students develop develop a comparative understanding of the types of institutions (e.g., constitutions, executives, legislatures, political parties, etc.)—as well as a country-by-country approach that examines those institutions within the contexts of eight different countries. This approach allows students to develop the ability to look how all the “pieces” fit together in various countries.
Author : Mark Beissinger,M. Crawford Young
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 193036508X
The contributors not only study state breakdown but compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.
Author : Lee Trepanier,Spasimir Domaradzki,Jaclyn Stanke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 8375710946
Author : Melvyn P. Leffler,Odd Arne Westad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521837194
This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War in the first comprehensive historical reexamination of the period. A team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical environments of the two world wars and interwar period.
Author : Ryan K. Beasley
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : International relations
ISBN : UCSC:32106011380703
Although a state's foreign policy is shaped by its unique culture, history, and political system, all states share the same challenge: they must contend with new global forces that are changing the way nations interact. Economic liberalization, democratization, self-determination, regionalism, as well as the growing power of international organizations heavily influence the actions of states both at home and on the world stage. At last there is a modern comparative foreign policy text. In one accessible volume, fifteen scholars systematically explore the foreign policies of thirteen nations, covering both major and emerging players. Linking the study of international relations to domestic politics, the authors highlight the importance of both internal and external forces in foreign policymaking. Rather than consolidate countries into regional categories, Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective treats each nation according to its individual history and contemporary dilemmas, allowing authors to address both shared concerns within a region and the unique struggles facing a particular country. Enabling comparative analysis, the book's theoretical framework helps students discern patterns to better understand why a state acts as it does in foreign affairs. Each country chapter includes: an introduction by the volume's editors that points to similar developments in other countries, reinforcing comparison and analysis; a discussion of the linkages between external and internal factors and the implications for future foreign policy; a map to place countries within geographical context; and a list of suggested readings for further information.
Author : Odd Arne Westad
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465093137
The definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the world We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with early roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world. In The Cold War, Westad offers a new perspective on a century when great power rivalry and ideological battle transformed every corner of our globe. From Soweto to Hollywood, Hanoi, and Hamburg, young men and women felt they were fighting for the future of the world. The Cold War may have begun on the perimeters of Europe, but it had its deepest reverberations in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, where nearly every community had to choose sides. And these choices continue to define economies and regimes across the world. Today, many regions are plagued with environmental threats, social divides, and ethnic conflicts that stem from this era. Its ideologies influence China, Russia, and the United States; Iraq and Afghanistan have been destroyed by the faith in purely military solutions that emerged from the Cold War. Stunning in its breadth and revelatory in its perspective, this book expands our understanding of the Cold War both geographically and chronologically, and offers an engaging new history of how today's world was created.
