The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War offers a broad reassessment of the period war based
on new conceptual frameworks developed in the field of international history. Nearing the …

1. See, for example, Melvyn P. Leffler and David Painter, eds., The Origins of the Cold War:
An International History (New York: Routledge, 2005), and Allen Hunter, ed., Rethinking the …

This comprehensive text provides a balanced survey of the Cold War in a genuinely global
framework. Presenting not only Soviet and Western perspectives, but also the outlooks of …

Despite the many books and articles written about the end of the Cold War, scholars have
not produced a truly international history f this seminal event. This article shows how some of …

A lively and accessible new introduction to the origins and emergence of the Cold War.
Caroline Kennedy-Pipe brings to life the clashes of ideas and personalities that led Russia …

The Cold War is not what it once was. Not only has the conflict itself been written about in the
past tense for more than a decade, but historians' certainties about the character of the …

This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging overview of current scholarship on the Cold War,
with essays from many leading scholars. The field of Cold War history has consistently been …

For forty-five years the Cold War was the central factor in world politics. It dominated the
foreign policies of the United States and the Soviet Union and affected the diplomacy and …

The Cold War examines the complex arguments which divided East and West following the
end of the Second World War, and analyzes its eight major phases, including:* the …

This chapter discusses the process of historicizing the Cold War. It explains that the Cold
War had no influence on major world affairs from the late nineteenth century onward and …