Introduction
Documentary Traces
1: Russia and the West: Destined to Collide?
2: The End of Illusions, 1945-1946
3: The Consolidation of the Blocs, 1947-1949
4: The Globalization and Militarization of the Contest,
1949-1953
5: The Age of Brinkmanship, 1953-1963
6: The Struggle in the Third World, 1950-1968
7: The Rise and Decline of Détente, 1969-1977
8: To the Panic of '79
9: Stirrings of Change, 1980-1985
10: Putting an End to the Cold War, 1986-1990
Conclusion
Endnotes
Select Bibliography
Index
Introduction; Documentary Traces; 1. Russia and the West: Destined to Collide?; 2. The End of Illusions, 1945-1946; 3. The Consolidation of the Blocs, 1947-1949; 4. The Globalization and Militarization of the Contest, 1949-1953; 5. The Age of Brinkmanship, 1953-1963; 6. The Struggle in the Third World, 1950-1968; 7. The Rise and Decline of Detente, 1969-1977; 8. To the Panic of '79; 9. Stirrings of Change, 1980-1985; 10. Putting an End to the Cold War, 1986-1990; Conclusion; Endnotes; Select Bibliography; Index
John Lamberton Harper is Professor of American Foreign Policy and
European Studies at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins
University School of Advanced International Studies. He is the
author of America and the Reconstruction of Italy (1986), winner of
the Marraro prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies,
American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F.
Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson (1994), winner of the Ferrell prize
from the Society for
Historians of American Foreign Relations, and American Machiavelli:
Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy (2004).
He is a contributing editor of Survival, and a member of the
Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome.
a clearly written, lucid political history of the Cold War
*Peter Shearman, Europe-Asia Studies*
an excellent book, a careful, nuanced and rich account of four
decades of East-West conflict.
*Survival*
This is an excellent overview of the Cold War.
*Dr Gábor Bátonyi, University of Bradford*
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