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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Propaganda, American
ISBN : SRLF:A0000134353
Author : Gregg A. Brazinsky
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469631714
Winning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg A. Brazinsky shows how both nations fought vigorously to establish their influence in newly independent African and Asian countries. By playing a leadership role in Asia and Africa, China hoped to regain its status in world affairs, but Americans feared that China's history as a nonwhite, anticolonial nation would make it an even more dangerous threat in the postcolonial world than the Soviet Union. Drawing on a broad array of new archival materials from China and the United States, Brazinsky demonstrates that disrupting China's efforts to elevate its stature became an important motive behind Washington's use of both hard and soft power in the "Global South." Presenting a detailed narrative of the diplomatic, economic, and cultural competition between Beijing and Washington, Brazinsky offers an important new window for understanding the impact of the Cold War on the Third World. With China's growing involvement in Asia and Africa in the twenty-first century, this impressive new work of international history has an undeniable relevance to contemporary world affairs and policy making.
Author : John Lehman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393254266
A thrilling story of the Cold War, told by a former navy secretary on the basis of recently declassified documents. When Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and manpower in Europe, and had embarked on a massive program to gain naval preeminence. But Reagan already had a plan to end the Cold War without armed conflict. Reagan led a bipartisan Congress to restore American command of the seas by building the navy back to six hundred major ships and fifteen aircraft carriers. He adopted a bold new strategy to deploy the growing fleet to northern waters around the periphery of the Soviet Union and demonstrate that the NATO fleet could sink Soviet submarines, defeat Soviet bomber and missile forces, and strike aggressively deep into the Soviet homeland if the USSR attacked NATO in Central Europe. New technology in radars, sensors, and electronic warfare made ghosts of American submarines and surface fleets. The United States proved that it could effectively operate carriers and aircraft in the ice and storms of Arctic waters, which no other navy had attempted. The Soviets, suffocated by this naval strategy, were forced to bankrupt their economy trying to keep pace. Shortly thereafter the Berlin Wall fell, and the USSR disbanded. In Oceans Ventured, John Lehman reveals for the first time the untold story of the naval operations that played a major role in winning the Cold War.
Author : Odd Arne Westad
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 50,9 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.
Author : Jack Matlock
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812974898
“[Matlock’s] account of Reagan’s achievement as the nation’s diplomat in chief is a public service.”—The New York Times Book Review “Engrossing . . . authoritative . . . a detailed and reliable narrative that future historians will be able to draw on to illuminate one of the most dramatic periods in modern history.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review In Reagan and Gorbachev, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., a former U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R. and principal adviser to Ronald Reagan on Soviet and European affairs, gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended. Working from his own papers, recent interviews with major figures, and unparalleled access to the best and latest sources, Matlock offers an insider’s perspective on a diplomatic campaign far more sophisticated than previously thought, waged by two leaders of surpassing vision. Matlock details how Reagan privately pursued improved U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations even while engaging in public saber rattling. When Gorbachev assumed leadership, however, Reagan and his advisers found a willing partner in peace. Matlock shows how both leaders took risks that yielded great rewards and offers unprecedented insight into the often cordial working relationship between Reagan and Gorbachev. Both epic and intimate, Reagan and Gorbachev will be the standard reference on the end of the Cold War, a work that is critical to our understanding of the present and the past.
Author : Douglas E. Streusand,Norman A. Bailey,Francis H. Marlo,Paul D. Gelpi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739188309
This book accounts the Reagan administration’s development and execution of the grand strategy that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, emphasizing the coordinated use of diplomatic, informational, military, and economic instruments of national power. It challenges the dominant narrative that often denies the existence of the grand strategy.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Cold War
ISBN : MINN:31951T00350858X
Author : Ray Takeyh,Steven Simon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393285567
A bold reexamination of U.S. influence in the Middle East during the Cold War. The Arab Spring, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iraq war, and the Syrian civil war—these contemporary conflicts have deep roots in the Middle East’s postwar emergence from colonialism. In The Pragmatic Superpower, foreign policy experts Ray Takeyh and Steven Simon reframe the legacy of U.S. involvement in the Arab world from 1945 to 1991 and shed new light on the makings of the contemporary Middle East. Cutting against conventional wisdom, the authors argue that, when an inexperienced Washington entered the turbulent world of Middle Eastern politics, it succeeded through hardheaded pragmatism—and secured its place as a global superpower. Eyes ever on its global conflict with the Soviet Union, America shrewdly navigated the rise of Arab nationalism, the founding of Israel, and seminal conflicts including the Suez War and the Iranian revolution. Takeyh and Simon reveal that America’s objectives in the region were often uncomplicated but hardly modest. Washington deployed adroit diplomacy to prevent Soviet infiltration of the region, preserve access to its considerable petroleum resources, and resolve the conflict between a Jewish homeland and the Arab states that opposed it. The Pragmatic Superpower provides fascinating insight into Washington’s maneuvers in a contest for global power and offers a unique reassessment of America’s cold war policies in a critical region of the world. Amid the chaotic conditions of the twenty-first century, Takeyh and Simon argue that there is an urgent need to look back to a period when the United States got it right. Only then will we better understand the challenges we face today.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Cold War
ISBN : HARVARD:32044049754096
Focuses on role of private business, educational, and trade union organization in fostering positive U.S. image abroad; Classified material has been deleted.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Propaganda, American
ISBN : LCCN:63061288
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1154 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Cold War
ISBN : UCR:31210021611338
Focuses on role of private business, educational, and trade union organization in fostering positive U.S. image abroad; Classified material has been deleted.
Author : Peter Schweizer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0871136333
Describes the Reagan administration's covert campaign against the Soviet Union that increased stress on the Soviet economy.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Cold War
ISBN : LOC:00139025428
Focuses on role of private business, educational, and trade union organization in fostering positive U.S. image abroad; Classified material has been deleted.
Author : United States. Congress. House Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117856588
Author : Thomas Nichols
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313015465
At the dawn of the 21st century, it should be evident that the Cold War of 1945-1991 was but the first of its kind. Nichols urges the reader to consider previous resolutions before another such conflict arises. He asserts that the Cold War was essentially a clash of ideologies tempered by the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation. Victory for the West came quietly, without the final and utterly destructive war often envisioned. Undoubtedly, the end of the Cold War was a signal victory for the West, and for the United States in particular. Yet Nichols reminds that enemies of the ideals of democracy, capitalism, and liberty abound and will lash out against western states that hold true to them. When this occurs, it will be imperative for the West to remember key lessons taken from the Cold War. Nichols argues that conflicts driven by dissonant ideologies differ from wars fought over resources and territory, and must therefore be fought differently.