UID:
kobvindex_ZBW08080063
Format:
382 Seiten
Edition:
Repr.
ISBN:
0714681202
,
0714650722
Series Statement:
Cass series: Cold War history 1
Content:
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 new materials have taken us in our understanding of what the cold war was about and how we should study it. Contents: Introduction: reviewing the Cold war, Odd Arne Westad. Part 1 Studying the Cold war: on starting all over again - a naive approach to the study of the Cold War, John Lewis Gaddis; bringing it together - the parts and the whole, Melvyn P. Leffler; how (not) to study the origins of the Cold war, Geir Lundestad; liberty or death - the Cold War as American ideology, Anders Stephanson. Part 2 History and theory: social science, history, and the Cold War - pushing the conceptual envelope, Richard Ned Lebow; a certain idea of science - how international relations theory avoids reviewing the Cold Ward, William C. Wohlforth. Part 3 Cultures and ideologies: culture, international relations theory, Yale Ferguson and Cold war history, Rey Koslowski; formal ideologies in the Cold War - towards a framework for empirical analysis, Douglas J. Macdonald. Part 4 Strategies and decision-making: the United States and the Cold war arms race, Aaron L. Friedberg; studying Soviet strategies and decision-making in the Cold War years, Constantine Pleshakov; Germany ion the Cold War - strategies and decisions, Wilfried Loth; China's strategic culture and the Cold war confrontations, She Guano Gang. Part 5 Turning points? reflections on the origins of the Cold War, Antonio Varsori; the crisis years, 1958-1963, James G. Hershberg; ironies and turning points - D?tente in perspective, Jussi M. Hanhimaki; why did the Cold war end in 1989? explanations of the "The Turn", Vladislav M. Zubokv. (AUT)
Language:
English
Keywords:
Sammlung von Beiträgen
;
Historische Darstellung
Author information:
Westad, Odd Arne
