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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.

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.

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.

This volume takes stock of where new materials from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe have taken us in our understanding of what the Cold War was about and how we should study it.

Middle East oil and Anglo-American special relations were among the most contentious issues during the Cold War. Oil is crucial to our understanding of Britain's and the USA's Cold War policies in the Middle East. This book presents an in-depth study of the issues of the period and the legacy of oil in the post Cold war era.

This edited volume uses newly released archival material to show linkages between the development of the European Union and the Cold War.

"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 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.

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 edited volume uses newly released archival material to show linkages between the development of the European Union and the Cold War.

This edited book presents a comprehensive analysis of the "Baltic Question" that arose within the context of the Cold War.

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.

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

Examines the complexities of the Cold War in Southern Africa. This book highlights the importance of the global ideological environment on the perceptions and consequent behaviour of the white minority regimes, the black nationalist movements, and the newly independent African nationalist governments.

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.

Offers an exploration of the last phase of the Cold War, taking a critical look at the crisis of detente in Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This book covers topics such as human rights, the Euromissiles, the CSCE, the Revolution in Military Affairs, and economic growth and its consequences.

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.

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.

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.

This edited book presents a comprehensive analysis of the "Baltic Question" that arose within the context of the Cold War.

This book is the first international history of the Third Indochina War, and features contributors from many different countries and scholarly traditions.

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

Using recently declassified sources, this book provides the first detailed analysis of British and American propaganda targeting the countries of the Middle East during the years of increasing international tension and regional instability immediately following the end of the Second World War.

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.