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    1 363,-

    Making use of newly-researched archival material, this collection of original essays on wartime and postwar US foreign policy re-evaluates well-known crises and documents many less familiar aspects of the nation's mid-twentieth century conflicts.

  • - A Critical Reappraisal
     
    537,-

    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.

  • - Issues, Interpretations, Periodizations
    av Silvio Pons & Federico Romero
    737 - 2 454,-

    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

  • - Approaches, Interpretations, Theory
     
    702,-

    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.

  • - Exploring Comparative Cold War Cultural and Social History
     
    781,-

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

  • - Challenging the Cold War Order in Europe
    av Angela (London School of Economics Romano
    1 458,-

    This book is an historical investigation into the role of the European Community in the overcoming of the East-West divide during the Cold War.

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    602,-

    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.

  •  
    1 363,-

    Making use of newly-researched archival material, this collection of original essays on wartime and postwar US foreign policy re-evaluates well-known crises and documents many less familiar aspects of the nation's mid-twentieth century conflicts.

  • - Britain, the United States and the Italian Colonies, 1945-52
    av NA NA
    1 363,-

    The question of the Italian colonies played an important part in the breakdown of Allied cooperation after the Second World War. Based on extensive research in British and American archives, this book will analyze British and US policy on this question within its Cold War context.

  • - A History of Detente, 1950-1991
    av W. Loth
    1 363,-

    This book offers a major new interpretation of the Cold War and how its aftermath shaped the course of history. The book offers new information taken from Eastern and Western archives, and for the first time draws a precise and detailed overall picture of how the Cold War was overcome.

  • - Eastern Europe and Western Europe in the Cold War, 1965-75
     
    752,-

    Containing essays by leading Cold War scholars, such as Wilfried Loth, Geir Lundestad and Seppo Hentilä, this volume offers a broad-ranging examination of the history of détente in the Cold War.

  • - Eastern Europe and Western Europe in the Cold War, 1965-75
     
    2 011,-

    Containing essays by Cold War scholars, such as Wilfried Loth, Geir Lundestad and Seppo Hentila, this volume offers an examination of the history of detente in the Cold War. It is useful to students of the Cold War, international history and European contemporary history.

  • - Anglo-American Relations and the Crisis of European Defence, 1950-55
    av K. Ruane
    1 363,-

    Using the European Defence Community (EDC) as a case-study, this book examines the competing and often conflicting view of the British and American governments towards European integration in the early 1950s.

  • - New Perspectives on Regional Conflict
     
    2 321,-

    "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.

  • av Christoph Bluth
    602 - 713,-

    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.

  • - Perspectives on Cold War Alliances
    av Kori N. Schake & John Gearson
    1 363,-

    This volume highlights the complex intra-alliance politics of what was seen as the likeliest flash point of conflict in the Cold War and demonstrates how strongly determinant were concerns about relationships with allies in the choices made by all the major governments.

  • - A Case Study of Southern European Dictatorships, 1967-74
     
    1 857,-

    This book examines the international dimensions of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967-74 and uses it as a case study to evaluate the major shifts occurring in the international system during a period of rapid change.

  • - Strategy and System in the Western Alliance
    av Mark Smith
    1 363,-

    Why did NATO expand its membership during the Cold War years, and what was its attraction to new members? This book locates the answers to these questions not solely in the Cold War, but in the historical problems of international order in Europe and the growing idea of the West.

  • - International Relations in the Second Cold War
    av Helene Sjursen
    602 - 713,-

    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.

  • av Andrew Roadnight
    1 363,-

    This analysis of US policy towards Indonesian nationalism concludes that Truman's support for independence was based on his Cold War priorities and not principled backing for self-determination.

  • av Erin Mahan
    1 363,-

    In Kennedy, de Gaulle and Western Europe , Mahan revises prevailing interpretations of Franco-American relations during the early 1960s that either chastise de Gaulle for anti-Americanism or Kennedy for imposing U.S. policies on Europe.

  • av Effie Pedaliu
    602,-

    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.

  • - New International Perspectives
     
    2 401,-

    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.

  • av Martin H. Folly
    1 363,-

    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.

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    1 363,-

    With the aid of official records of former Communist countries, this analysis of diplomatic relations, economic imperialism, and cultural influences on great, middle and small rank European powers, reveals how and why the victors failed to reach an agreement of postwar order in Europe.

  • - Brandt, Kennedy and the Formation of Ostpolitik
    av University of London, UK) Hofmann & Arne (formerly at Queen Mary
    752 - 2 321,-

    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.

  • - Informal Elite Diplomacy, 1972-82
    av Denmark) Knudsen & Dino (University of Copenhagen
    599 - 2 460,-

  • - The Choice between Europe and the World?
    av Saki Dockrill
    1 363,-

    This book, based on recently declassified documents in Britain and the USA, is the first detailed account of Britain's East of Suez decision, which was taken by the Harold Wilson Government in 1967-68.

  • - European Responses to the US Trade Embargo
    av Canberra, Australia) Cain & Frank (University of New South Wales
    624,-

    Examines how the United States trade embargo on the Soviet Union and communist China severed relationships with Europe, particularly focusing on Great Britain. This book provides insights into the changing emphasis between the Republican and Democrat administrations on the key question of trade embargo.

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