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21. The Military Balance in the Cold War

    US Perceptions and Policy, 1976-85

    By David Walsh

    Series: Cold War History

    This book examines the impact of American perceptions of the military balance between the United States and the Soviet Union during the key period of 1976-1985. That decade witnessed the decline of the US-Soviet détente and the resurgence of superpower confrontation, often called the ‘Second Cold...

    Published July 19th 2007 by Routledge
22. Britain, Germany and the Cold War

    The Search for a European Détente 1949–1967

    By R. Gerald Hughes

    Series: Cold War History

    This well-researched book details the ambiguity in British policy towards Europe in the Cold War as it sought to pursue détente with the Soviet Union whilst upholding its commitments to its NATO allies. From the early 1950s, Britain pursued a dual policy of strengthening the West whilst seeking...

    Published April 18th 2007 by Routledge
23. The Third Indochina War

    Conflict between China, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1972-79

    Edited by Odd Arne Westad, Sophie Quinn-Judge

    Series: Cold War History

    This new collection explores the origins and key issues of the Third Indochina War, which began in 1979. Drawing on unique documentation from all sides, leading contributors reinterpret and demystify the long-term and immediate causes of the Vietnamese-Cambodian and Sino-Vietnamese...

    Published June 22nd 2006 by Routledge
24. Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War

    Issues, Interpretations, Periodizations

    By Silvio Pons, Federico Romero

    Series: Cold War History

    As the activities of individuals, organizations, and nations increasingly occur in cyberspace, the security of those activities is becoming a growing concern. Political, economic and military leaders must manage and reduce the level of risk associated with threats from hostile states, malevolent...

    Published December 8th 2004 by Routledge
25. The Last Decade of the Cold War

    From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation

    Edited by Olav Njolstad

    Series: Cold War History

    The 1980s was a period of almost unprecedented rivalry and tension between the two main actors in the East-West conflict, the United States and the Soviet Union. Why and how that conflict first escalated and thereafter, in an amazingly swift process, was reversed and brought to its peaceful...

    Published April 7th 2004 by Routledge
26. Across the Blocs

    Exploring Comparative Cold War Cultural and Social History

    Edited by Patrick Major, Rana Mitter

    Series: Cold War History

    This book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history. It makes cross-cultural comparisons of the socio cultural aspects of the Cold War across the East/West block divide, dealing with issues including broadcasting,...

    Published February 18th 2004 by Routledge
27. Europe, Cold War and Coexistence, 1955-1965

    Edited by WILFRED LOTH

    Series: Cold War History

    This title examines the role of the Europeans in the Cold War during the 'Khrushchev Era'. It was a period marked by the struggle for a regulated co-existence in a world of blocs, an initial arrangement to find a temporary arrangement failed due to German desires to quickly overcome the status quo....

    Published February 4th 2004 by Routledge
28. British and American Anti-communism Before the Cold War

    By Markku Ruotsila

    Series: Cold War History

    This work examines in a comparative historical way the socialist, liberal and conservative strands of Anglo-American anticommunist thought before the Cold War. In so doing, this book provides us with an intellectual pre-history of Cold War attitudes and policy positions....

    Published May 31st 2001 by Routledge
29. Reviewing the Cold War

    Approaches, Interpretations, Theory

    Edited by Odd Arne Westad

    Series: Cold War History

    Since the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe. This volume takes stock of where these new materials have taken us in our understanding of what the cold war was about and how we should study it....

    Published August 31st 2000 by Routledge