| Description |
xvi, 238 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cass series--Cold War history, 1471-3829 ; 2 |
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Cass series--Cold War history. 1471-3829 ; 2
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| Contents |
Foreword / Fred Halliday -- 1. Introduction: What Was the Cold War? -- 2. The Cold War and International Relations Theory -- 3. The Politics of the State in the Cold War -- 4. Military Power and Strategic Conflict in the Cold War -- 5. Social Revolution and the Cold War -- 6. The International Relations of the USSR in the Cold War -- 7. The International Relations of the United States in the Cold War -- 8. Conclusion: Understanding the Cold War and Its End |
| Summary |
"This book provides a critique of the understandings of the Cold War prevalent in International Relations (IR) thought and offers an alternative perspective founded on an historical-materialist approach to IR." |
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"Rethinking Theory and History in the Cold War focuses on what we mean by 'politics' and 'international relations' and how such assumptions have come to determine our understanding of the Cold War. Using an historical-materialist method, the author criticizes conventional conceptions of international politics that tend to focus on the agency of and relations among states, and offers an alternative historical sociology of the Cold War through an analysis of the relationship between formal political authority and socio-economic production. Seen from this perspective, the state the modern conceptions of politics can be seen as products of a capitalist modernity, in which politics is based on the separation of the spheres of politics in the state and economics in civil society."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [218]-231) and index |
| Subject |
Cold War -- Historiography.
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World politics -- 1945-1955.
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Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Cold War -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union.
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Military history, Modern -- 20th century.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140115
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USSR -- Foreign relations -- United States.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125763
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| LC no. |
2001028287 |
| ISBN |
0714651893 cloth |
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0714682268 paper |
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