The Cold War The Essential Readings

by Larres, Klaus; Lane, Ann

• ISBN13: 9780631207061
• ISBN10: 0631207066
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This collection brings together the most influential and commonly-studied articles on the Cold War. Together with an introduction and concise headnotes, this book provides students with easy access to seminal work and an analytical framework with which to approach their studies.

Author Biography

Klaus Larres is Reader and Jean Monnet Professor in the School of Politics at the Queen's University of Belfast. His previous work includes Politics of Illusion: Churchill, Eisenhower and the German Question (in German, 1995); A History of the Federal Republic, 1949-1989 (co-author, in German, 1999); The Federal Republic of Germany since 1949 (co-editor, 1996), Germany and the United States in the 20th Century (co-editor, in German, 1997), Uneasy Allies: British-German Relations and European Integration since 1945 (ed., 2000), and Germany since Unification: The Development of the Berlin Republic (ed., 2000).

Ann Lane is Lecturer in the War Studies Group at King's College London. She is author of Britain, the Cold War and Yugoslav Unity, 1941-1949 (1996), and co-editor with Howard Temperly of The Rise and Fall of the Grand Alliance (1996).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction: The Cold War as History	1	(16)
Ann Lane
Part I Cold War Origins	17	(48)
Economics, Power and National Security: Lessons of the Past	21	(20)
Melvyn P. Leffler
Dividing the World	41	(24)
John Lewis Gaddis
Part II First Attempts at Conflict Management	65	(70)
Integrating Europe or Ending the Cold War? Churchill's Post-war Foreign Policy	69	(29)
Klaus Larres
Khrushchev and Kennedy: The Taming of the Cold War	98	(37)
Vladislav Zubok
Constantine Pleshakov
Part III War and Detente	135	(46)
The Vietnam War and the Superpower Triangle	139	(20)
Richard Crockatt
The Failure of the Detente of the 1970s	159	(22)
Raymond L. Garthoff
Part IV The End of the Cold War	181	(58)
Who Won the Cold War? 1984-1991	185	(46)
H. W. Brands
Some Lessons from the Cold War	231	(8)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Index	239