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 …

This timely collection of essays offers one of the first, serious efforts to examine the end of
the Cold War. The book presents the thinking of leading historians, political scientists, policy …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The end of the Cold War should have been an occasion to reassess its origins, history,
significance, and consequences. Yet most commentators have restated positions already …

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 …

Few, if any, major epochs in international history have faded from view as quickly as the
Cold War. In class, I often meet students who wish-but rarely dare-to ask what the Cold War …

The end of the Cold War constitutes one of the most remarkable transformations of the
twentieth century. Its peaceful and unexpected end was a dramatic watershed, as was the …