United States and the End of the Cold War - Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations

Zusatztext a collection of thoughtful essays Informationen zum Autor John Lewis Gaddis is Professor of History and director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University. He is the author of The Long Peace and Strategies of Containment. Klappentext The book contains significant new interpretations of the American style in foreign policy, the objectives of containment, the role of morality, nuclear weapons, and intelligence and espionage in Washington's conduct of the Cold War. It reassesses, in ways sure to be controversial, the leadership of two distinctive cold warriors, John Foster Dulles and Ronald Reagan. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays by a leading American authority on US foreign policy, which discusses the American style of diplomacy of the 20th century, the ambiguous nature of morality in American foreign policy, various aspects of Cold War diplomacy and the end of the Cold War itself.

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• Authors: John Lewis Gaddis, John Lewis (Professor of History Gaddis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.1994
• EAN: 9780195085518
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508551-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, International Relations, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, C 1945 To C 1960