The Cold War

Author:   John Lamberton Harper (Professor of American Foreign Policy and European Studies, The Bologna Center of The Johns Hopkins University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199237012


Pages:   348
Publication Date:   26 May 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   John Lamberton Harper (Professor of American Foreign Policy and European Studies, The Bologna Center of The Johns Hopkins University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 21.20cm
Weight:   0.457kg
ISBN:  

9780199237012


ISBN 10:   0199237018
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   26 May 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Documentary Traces 1: Russia and the West: Destined to Collide? 2: The End of Illusions, 1945-1946 3: The Consolidation of the Blocs, 1947-1949 4: The Globalization and Militarization of the Contest, 1949-1953 5: The Age of Brinkmanship, 1953-1963 6: The Struggle in the Third World, 1950-1968 7: The Rise and Decline of Détente, 1969-1977 8: To the Panic of '79 9: Stirrings of Change, 1980-1985 10: Putting an End to the Cold War, 1986-1990 Conclusion Endnotes Select Bibliography Index

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a clearly written, lucid political history of the Cold War * Peter Shearman, Europe-Asia Studies * an excellent book, a careful, nuanced and rich account of four decades of East-West conflict. * Survival * This is an excellent overview of the Cold War. * Dr Gabor Batonyi, University of Bradford *


a clearly written, lucid political history of the Cold War Peter Shearman, Europe-Asia Studies


a clearly written, lucid political history of the Cold War Peter Shearman, Europe-Asia Studies an excellent book, a careful, nuanced and rich account of four decades of East-West conflict. Survival


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John Lamberton Harper is Professor of American Foreign Policy and European Studies at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of America and the Reconstruction of Italy (1986), winner of the Marraro prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies, American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson (1994), winner of the Ferrell prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy (2004). He is a contributing editor of Survival, and a member of the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome.

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