The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Crises and Detente

by Leffler, Melvyn P.

• ISBN13: 9780521837200
• ISBN10: 0521837200
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-26
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the developments that made the Cold War a long-lasting international system during the 1960s and 1970s. A team of leading scholars explains how the Cold War seemed to stabilize after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and how this sense of increased stability evolved into the détente era of the early 1970s. The authors outline how conflicts in the Third World, as well as the interests and ideologies of the superpowers, eroded the détente process. They delve into the social and economic roots of the conflict, illuminate processes of integration and disintegration, analyze the arms race and explore the roles of intelligence, culture and national identities. Discussing the newest findings on US and Soviet foreign policy and examining crises inside and outside of Europe, this authoritative volume will define Cold War studies for years to come.

Table of Contents

Preface to Volumes One, Two and Three; 1. Grand strategies in the Cold War John Lewis Gaddis; 2. Identity and the Cold War Robert Jervis; 3. Economic aspects of the Cold War, 19621975 Richard N. Cooper; 4. The Cuban Missile Crisis James G. Hershberg; 5. Nuclear competition in an era of stalemate, 19631975 William Burr and David Alan Rosenberg; 6. US foreign policy from Kennedy to Johnson Frank Costigliola; 7. Soviet foreign policy, 19621975 William Taubman and Svetlana Savranskaya; 8. France, 'Gaulism', and the Cold War FrÈdÈric Bozo; 9. European integration and the Cold War N. Piers Ludlow; 10. DÈtente in Europe, 19621975 Jussi M. Hanhimaki; 11. Eastern Europe: Stalinism to solidarity Anthony Kemp-Welch; 12. Cold War and the transformation of the Mediterranean, 19601975 Ennio Di Nolfo; 13. The Cold War in the Third World, 19631975 Michael E. Latham; 14. The Indochina Wars and the Cold War, 19451975 Fredrik Logevall; 15. The Cold War in the Middle East from the Suez Crisis to the Camp David Accords Douglas Litt≤ 16. Cuba and the Cold War, 19591980 Piero Gleijeses; 17. The Sino-Soviet split Sergey Radchenko; 18. DÈtente in the Nixon-Ford years, 19691976 Robert D. Schulzinger; 19. Nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation during the Cold War Francis J. Gavin; 20. Intelligence in the Cold War Christopher Andrew; 21. Reading, viewing and tuning-in to the Cold War Nicholas J. Cull; 22. Counter-cultures: the rebellions against the Cold War order, 19651975 Jeremi Suri; 23. The structure of great power politics, 19631975 Marc Trachtenberg; 24. The Cold War and the social and economic history of the twentieth century Wilfried Loth.