The United States and the end of the cold war : implications, reconsiderations, provocations /

Two decades ago, historian John Lewis Gaddis published The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, a pioneering work of scholarship that sought to explain how Americans found themselves, at the moment of their victory in World War II, facing a long, difficult, and dangerous struggle with an e...

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Autor principal: Gaddis, John Lewis
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The American Foreign Policy style in the twentieth century
  • The objectives of containment
  • Morality and the American experience in the Cold War
  • The unexpected John Foster Dulles
  • Intelligence, espionage, and Cold War history
  • The essential relevance of nuclear weapons
  • The unexpected Ronald Reagan
  • How the Cold War might end: an exercise in faulty prediction
  • Tectonics, history, and the end of the Cold War
  • Great illusions, the long peace, and the future of the international system
  • Toward the post-Cold War world.