The Cold War in Retrospect - The Formative Years

An analysis and critical commentary on the general approach of American foreign policy toward Soviet Russia during the formative years of the Cold War. Whitcomb contends that the United States must bear a major share of the responsibility for the endless litany of conflicts, crises, and military confrontations that came to mark our foreign relations after 1945.

Whitcomb shows that the American foreign affairs tradition led the country to entertain persistent misperceptions of the realities of the international arena in which it had to function. At the same time, Whitcomb points to the incompatability between many of the nation's most cherished values and the habits of action that Americans exhibited in their relationships with other states. An important post-revisionist view, this book will be of interest to American foreign policy for scholars and students alike.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction: American Meets Russia, 1941-1961: A Case Study
The Troubled Partnership: The Bear and the Eagle in World War II
The Postwar Scene (1945-53): Cold War and Things
The Eisenhower Years: Nothing Fundamental Has Changed
Babylon Revisited
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

ROGER S. WHITCOMB is Professor of International Relations/Foreign Policy Studies and Director of International Studies at Kutztown University. A widely published specialist in Russian-American relations, his latest book is The American Approach to Foreign Affairs: An Uncertain Tradition (Praeger, 1998).

Product details

• Authors: Roger S. Whitcomb, Whitcomb Roger S.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.1998
• EAN: 9780275962531
• ISBN: 978-0-275-96253-1
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, International Relations, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), History of the Americas, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era, Politics, Law, and Government: International Relations