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Zusatztext This is an excellent overview of the Cold War. Informationen zum Autor John Lamberton Harper is Professor of American Foreign Policy and European Studies at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of America and the Reconstruction of Italy (1986), winner of the Marraro prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies, American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson (1994), winner of the Ferrell prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy (2004). He is a contributing editor of Survival, and a member of the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome. Klappentext A concise and briskly written overview of Cold War history, two decades from its end. Zusammenfassung A concise, briskly-written account of the Cold War, drawing on the latest archival evidence and scholarly research. It includes a discussion of Cold War historiography and in the introductory section frames the main account by examining some of the subject's primary documents. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Documentary Traces 1: Russia and the West: Destined to Collide? 2: The End of Illusions, 1945-1946 3: The Consolidation of the Blocs, 1947-1949 4: The Globalization and Militarization of the Contest, 1949-1953 5: The Age of Brinkmanship, 1953-1963 6: The Struggle in the Third World, 1950-1968 7: The Rise and Decline of Détente, 1969-1977 8: To the Panic of '79 9: Stirrings of Change, 1980-1985 10: Putting an End to the Cold War, 1986-1990 Conclusion Endnotes Select Bibliography Index
