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Informationen zum Autor Richard Saull is Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Politics, Queen Mary, University of London, and is the author of Rethinking Theory and History in the Cold War (Routledge, 2001) and The Cold War and After (Pluto, 2007). Klappentext An alternative perspective on the Cold War that broadens our understanding of the nature of political conflict. Rick Saull provides in this new book a comprehensive reinterpretation of world politics in the 'short twentieth century' (1917-91). ...Highlighting organic connections between geopolitics and socio-economic relations, Saull stresses the coercive and militarized ways in which revolutionary communist power emerged and reproduced itself in a hostile, capitalist-dominated world. -- Mark Rupert, Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA Richard Saull takes the long view of the rise and fall of the Cold War and ... into the turbulent history of the twentieth century - once dominated by a fear of revolution and now driven by new and possibly more terrifying worries about weapons of mass destruction and global jihad. A must read for those looking for another way of thinking about our dark times. -- Professor Michael Cox, Department of International Relations and Director of the Cold War Studies Centre at the London School of Economics [This book] is more than the historical summary of the subject promised by his preface. It combines a compelling analytic narrative with a challenging theoretical understanding of Cold War. ... He demolishes standard accounts of the Cold War and its aftermath and ends with an intricate, complex approach to the political geography of the war on terror. ... indispensable book -- Professor Marilyn Young, Department of History, New York University Richard Saull's brilliant [book] is an indispensable account of the Cold War which challenges the standard accounts theoretically and analytically. ... He carries the reader along in a vigorously argued and persuasively written narrative. No other book on the Cold War comes close to Saull's striking integration of socio-economic, ideological, strategic and military perspectives. -- Professor Marilyn Young, Department of History, New York University [The author] ... shows how many of the fundamental driving forces of international conflict during the Cold War remain with us today, not least in the so-called war on terror. ... Saull's survey of the theoretical debate on the Cold War is sophisticated and illuminating. ... It raises fundamental theoretical issues about the sociology of contemporary international politics. -- Peter Gowan, Professor of International Relations, London Metropolitan University Zusammenfassung An alternative perspective on the Cold War that broadens our understanding of the nature of political conflict. ...
