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List of contents
PART ONE: OVERVIEW
1. The Cold war: An Overview
2. The Strategic Dimension of East-West competition
PART TWO: EAST-WEST RELATIONS 1945-1991
3. The Start of the Cold War
4. The Nadir of the Cold War
5. The Kruschev Years Detentes, Challenges, Crises
6. The Vietnam War and Other Proxy Conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s
7. Détente in Europe
8. The United States, China and the World
9. The rise and fall of Détente in the 1960s and 1970s
10. Tension and the ending of the Cold war in the 1980s
PART THREE: EUROPE WEST AND EAST AND THE SINO-SOCIET SPLIT
11. Western Europe I: The Political Order
12. Western Europe II: France, Germany, Britain, and the USA
13. Western Europe III: The European Union
14. Splits in the Communist World
15. Eastern Europe since 1957
PART FOUR: CONCLUSION
16. Perspectives on the Cold War and its Aftermath
About the author
J.P.D. Dunbabin, formerly Reader in International Relations at Oxford University, has published over a wide range of topics including British and international history, The League of Nations and the United Nations.
Summary
The Cold War offers a brief but detailed treatment of one of the most complex eras of the 20th Century. In this book Dunabin delivers a balanced perspective on the key events and helps the reader to gain a deeper understanding of why they happened as they did.
