The decades-long Cold War was more than a bipolar conflict between two Superpowers-it
had implications for the entire world. In this accessible, comprehensive retelling, Carole K …

The Cold War dominated international relations for forty-five years. It shaped the foreign
policies of the United States and the Soviet Union and deeply affected their societies …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Between 1945 and 1991, tension between the USA, its allies, and a group of nations led by
the USSR, dominated world politics. This period was called the Cold War–a conflict that …

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 …