Bücher der Reihe Cold War History

Presents a study of the European Community's development between 1963 and 1969, with a special focus on the struggle between France and its EC partners over the purpose, structure and membership of the emerging European Community.

This volume brings together a collection of leading international experts to revisit and review our understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis, via a critical reappraisal of some of the key texts. The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Critical Reappraisal brings together world leading scholars from America, Britain, France, Canada, and Russia to present critical scrutiny of authoritative accounts and to recast assumptions and interpretations. The book aims to provide an essential guide for students of the missile crisis, the diplomacy of the Cold War, and the dynamics of historical interpretation and reinterpretation. Offering original ideas and agendas, the contributors seek to provide a new understanding of the secrets and mysteries of the moment when the world went to the brink of Armageddon. This book will be of great interest to students of the Cuban missile crisis, Cold War Studies, nuclear proliferation, international history and International Relations in general.

Presents a comprehensive analysis of Greek foreign and internal policy during the Cold War, covering the key period from the country's accession to NATO in 1952 until the imposition of the colonels' dictatorship in 1967. This book is of interest to students of Greek politics, Balkans history, the Cold War and strategic studies.

Translation of: Mao Zedong, Sidalin yu Chaoxian zhan zheng.

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. This book shows how the perceptions of the 1970s contributed to key policy decisions in the 1980s, which themselves played a significant role in bringing the Cold War to an end.

This volume brings together a collection of leading international experts to revisit and review our understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis, via a critical reappraisal of some of the key texts. The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Critical Reappraisal brings together world leading scholars from America, Britain, France, Canada, and Russia to present critical scrutiny of authoritative accounts and to recast assumptions and interpretations. The book aims to provide an essential guide for students of the missile crisis, the diplomacy of the Cold War, and the dynamics of historical interpretation and reinterpretation. Offering original ideas and agendas, the contributors seek to provide a new understanding of the secrets and mysteries of the moment when the world went to the brink of Armageddon. This book will be of great interest to students of the Cuban missile crisis, Cold War Studies, nuclear proliferation, international history and International Relations in general.

Examines the US police and paramilitary assistance to the regime in South Vietnam to combat the spread of communist revolution during the 1955-1963 period. Given the scale of its efforts, and the Diem regime's importance to the US leadership, this text identifies the key factors that contributed to the failure of American policy.

Presents an explanation for the collapse of the process of normalization of Yugoslav-Soviet that occurred at the end of 1956 and the renewal of their ideological confrontation. This book also explains the motives that guided the two main protagonists, Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia and the Soviet leader Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev.

The intense rivalry, suspicion and tension between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War came to an end in the 1980s. These essays describe the transition process to a more peaceful co-existence from a variety of angles and perspectives.

Focuses on the globalisation of the Cold War in the years 1975-85, highlighting the transformation from bipolar US-Soviet competition to global confrontation. This book demonstrates how the United States returned to a position of global economic leadership.

This title examines the role of the Europeans in the Cold War during the 'Khrushchev Era' (1953-65).

Seeks to reassess the role of Europe in the end of the Cold War and the process of German unification. This book also seeks to re-direct the focus towards the role of European actors and the importance of European processes, most notably that of integration. It explores "Europe" in all its various dimensions.

Details the ambiguity in British policy towards Europe in the Cold War as it sought to pursue detente with the Soviet Union whilst upholding its commitments to its NATO allies. This book is intended for students of Cold War history, British foreign policy, German politics, and international history.

Talks about the roles of Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev and their efforts to achieve a compromise settlement on the pivotal Berlin Crisis. This book demonstrates how the British Prime Minister acted to prevent the crisis sliding into a disastrous nuclear conflict. It is suitable for students of Soviet foreign policy and the Cold War.

Re-assesses the relationship between the United States, the Soviet Union and key regional players in waging and halting conflict in the Middle East between 1967 and 1973. This book is of interest to students of Cold War studies, Middle Eastern history, strategic studies and international history.

Analyzes how the Soviet leadership evaluated developments in Soviet-Vietnamese relations in the years from 1949 to 1964. Focusing on how Soviet leaders perceived China's role in Vietnam, this book shows how these perceptions influenced the Soviet-Vietnamese relationship. It is useful for students with an interest in Soviet-Vietnamese relations.

This edited volume analyses European socialist countries¿ strategy of engagement with the West and the European Economic Community in the long 1970s.

This book examines how technology has affected national security, focusing on issues such as definitions of peace and war, the conduct of and military organization for war, and the growing role of the private sector in providing security. This is a

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.

This book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history.

Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1964 offers new perspectives on ways in which Britain fought the Cold War, and illuminates key areas of the policy formulation process.

"This book brings together recent research on the end of the Cold War in the Third World and engages with ongoing debates about regional conflicts, the role of great powers in the developing world, and the role of international actors in conflict resolution"-- Provided by publisher.

This original study based on documents, hitherto not discussed in literature of the Cold War, adds a significant new perspective to an important episode in Cold War History. This book makes use of newly declassified files and, for the first time, reveals the true purposes and intentions of the Warsaw Pact in those negotiations.

This book examines the response of the Western Alliance to the Polish Crisis (1980-83). The author analyses the different views of Europe and the United States regarding enforcement in East-West relations and the opposition in Western Europe to the American approach.

the Italian elections of April 1948 and Italy's institutional role in western security arrangements and on European integrative bodies. It reveals that British policy towards Italy was underpinned not only by power politics but also by moral and ideological considerations.

This volume offers a wide-ranging examination of the Iran¿Iraq War (1980¿88), featuring fresh regional and international perspectives derived from recently available new archival material.

This book examines British policy-makers' attitudes to cooperation with the USSR and shows how views of internal developments in the USSR and of Stalin himself influenced Churchill, the War Cabinet and the Foreign Office to believe that long-term collaboration was a desirable and achievable goal.

Examines the key relationship between Willy Brandt (the former Mayor of West Berlin) and the administration of President John F Kennedy. This book also focuses on the administration's influence on the development of Brandt's 'policy of small steps' and the formation of his later Ostpolitik, the centrepiece of European detente.