The 1980s revisited or the Cold War as history--again / Michael Cox -- The beginning and the end: time, context and the Cold War / Melvyn P. Leffler -- The European role at the beginning and particularly the end of the Cold War / Geir Lundestad -- Economic constraints and the turn towards superpower cooperation in the 1980s / Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth -- Explaining the end of the Cold War: turning points in Soviet security policy / Matthew Evangelista -- The sources of 'new thinking': why and what for? / Jacques Lévesque -- The US role in winding down the Cold War, 1980-90 / Raymond L. Garthoff -- The Carter legacy: entering the second era of the Cold War / Olav Njølstad -- The United States and the transformation of the Cold War / Beth A. Fischer -- Reagan's anti-revolutionary offensive in the Third World / Odd Arne Westad -- Germany in the last decade of the Cold War / Hans-Herman Herlte -- Before the wall: French diplomacy and the last decade of the Cold War, 1979-1989 / Frédéric Bozo -- Helping to open the door? Britain in the last decade of the Cold War / Sean Greenwood -- Italy and the battle of the euromissiles: the deployment of the US BGM-109 G 'Gryphon', 1979-83 / Leopoldo Nuti -- NATO's northern frontline in the 1980s / Olav Ristle -- Playground of superpowers, Poland 1980-89: a view from inside / Andrzej Paczkowski -- Did Gorbachev liberate eastern Europe? / Vojtech Mastny
