UID:
almafu_9959227299202883
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 417p. )
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maps
ISBN:
1-134-77934-8
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0-415-10471-8
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9786610354788
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1-280-35478-X
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1-134-77935-6
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0-203-28570-0
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0-203-20626-6
Content:
Taking an impartial stance, the author presents a comprehensive history of the global politics of the Cold War, covering the goals and fears of each superpower.
Note:
Originally published: 1995.
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Part I: Perspectives 1. Introduction: The Fifty Years' War 2. The American and Soviet Foreign Policy Part II: The Emergence of a Bipolar World 1941-1953 3. The Second World War and the Struggle for Peace 1941-1946 4. 'Two Ways of Life': The Cold War in Europe 1947-1953 5. Cold War: The Far Eastern Dimension, 1945-1950 Part III: Globalism and the Limits of Bipolarity 1953-1964 6. Peaceful Coexistence and Irreconcilable Conflict 7. The Nuclear Arms Race 1945-1963 8. The United States, the Soviet Union and the Third World Part IV: Detente and its Limits 1965-1981 9. Detente in the Making 1965-1973 10. The Vietnam War and the Superpower Triangle 11. Detente Under Pressure 1973-1981 Part V: Cold War V International Politics: The Denouement 1981-1991 12. Reaganism and the Spectre of Communism 13. Gorbachev and the New World Disorder Conclusion
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-13554-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203206263
