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Title Origins of the Cold War : an international history / edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and David S. Painter
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1994
London ; New York : Routledge, ©1994

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Description xiii, 322 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Series Rewriting histories
Rewriting histories.
Contents Introduction : the international system and the origins of the Cold War / David S. Painter and Melvyn P Leffler -- National security and US foreign policy / Melvyn P. Leffler -- National security and Soviet foreign policy / Michael MccGwire -- The atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War / Martin J. Sherwin -- The Soviet Union and the origins of the arms race / David Holloway -- American policy and the shifting nuclear balance / Marc Trachtenberg -- The European dimension of the Cold War / David Reynolds -- British policy and the origins of the Cold War / John Kent -- Hegemony and autonomy within the western alliance / Charles Maier -- Hegemony and repression in the eastern alliance / Charles Gati -- From the Marshall Plan to the Third World / Robert E. Wood -- Japan and the Asian periphery / Bruce Cumings -- The Iranian crisis of 1946 and the onset of the Cold war / Stephen L. McFarland -- Revolutionary movements in Asia and the Cold War / Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine -- Threat perception and Chinese Communist foreign policy / Shuguang Zhang -- The impact of the Cold War on Latin America / Leslie Bethell and Ian Roxborough -- Epilogue : the end of the Cold War / David S. Painter and Melvyn P. Leffler
Summary The Cold War dominated the world political arena for forty-five years. Focusing on the international system and on events in all parts of the globe, Melvyn P. Leffler and David S. Painter have brought together a truly international collection of articles that provide a fresh and comprehensive analysis of the origins of the Cold War. Moving beyond earlier controversies, this edited collection focuses on the interaction between geopolitics and threat perception, technology and strategy, ideology and social reconstruction, national economic reform and patterns of international trade, and decolonization and national liberation. The editors also consider how and why the Cold War spread from Europe to Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America and how groups, classes and elites used the Cold War to further their own interests
Analysis Foreign relations History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Also available online
Subject Cold War.
World politics -- 1945-1955.
World politics -- 1945-1989.
SUBJECT USSR http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126312 -- Reliations -- United States
United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 -- Reliations -- Soviet Union
Author Leffler, Melvyn P., 1945- editor
Painter, David S., editor
LC no. 93023298
ISBN 0415096936
0415096944
6610328153
9780415096935
9780415096942
9786610328154