Camb Hist American Foreign Rels v4: Volume 4, America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945 1991: 004
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Revised ed., 1/12/2008
EAN 9780521483810, ISBN10: 0521483816
Paperback, 300 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective. All of the major foreign policy issues, including the origins of the Soviet-American conflict; the extension of the confrontation to Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere on the periphery; wars in Korea and Vietnam; crises involving the Taiwan Straits, Berlin, and Cuba; the rise and fall of détente; imperial overreach; and the critical roles of Reagan and Gorbachev in the 1980s are carefully analysed and clearly explained.
Acknowledgments
Prelude
Part I. At War's End
Visions of a New World Order
Part II. Origins of the Cold War
Part III. The Korean War and its Consequences
Part IV. New Leaders and New Arenas in the Cold War
Part V. Crisis Resolution
Part VI. America's Longest War
Part VII. The Rise and Fall of Detente
Part VIII. In God's Country
Conclusion
America and the World, 1945–1991
Bibliographic Essay
Index.