Overview

The Cold War offers a brief but detailed treatment of one of the most complex eras of the 20th Century. In this fully revised second edition, J.P.D. Dunbabin, drawing on international scholarship and using much new material from communist sources, describes a world in which covert operations could be as important as outright diplomacy, 'soft' power as influential as 'hard', and in which competing ideologies ruled the hearts as much as the heads of the leaders in power. Dunbabin’s account is global in scope, taking into account the importance of players beyond the superpowers, and shedding light on the proxy conflicts such as those in Africa and the Middle East that, if not caused by the continuing stalemate between the great powers, were used as weapons within it.

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Author:   J.P.D. Dunbabin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Longman
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.270kg
ISBN:  

9780582423985

ISBN 10:   0582423988
Pages:   688
Publication Date:   04 December 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PART ONE: OVERVIEW 1. The Cold war: An Overview 2. The Strategic Dimension of East-West competition PART TWO: EAST-WEST RELATIONS 1945-1991 3. The Start of the Cold War 4. The Nadir of the Cold War 5. The Kruschev Years Detentes, Challenges, Crises 6. The Vietnam War and Other Proxy Conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s 7. Détente in Europe 8. The United States, China and the World 9. The rise and fall of Détente in the 1960s and 1970s 10. Tension and the ending of the Cold war in the 1980s PART THREE: EUROPE WEST AND EAST AND THE SINO-SOCIET SPLIT 11. Western Europe I: The Political Order 12. Western Europe II: France, Germany, Britain, and the USA 13. Western Europe III: The European Union 14. Splits in the Communist World 15. Eastern Europe since 1957 PART FOUR: CONCLUSION 16. Perspectives on the Cold War and its Aftermath

Reviews

Reviews of the first edition: '[This volume] represents quite a remarkable achievement, drawing together the results of a vast array of research on post-war international affairs in a readable and remarkably well-structured way'. History 'Dunbabin's comprehensive, very detailed, and well-analysed book may well become one of the standard textbooks on the Cold War'. The Slavonic Review

"Reviews of the first edition: '[This volume] represents quite a remarkable achievement, drawing together the results of a vast array of research on post-war international affairs in a readable and remarkably well-structured way'. ""History"" 'Dunbabin's comprehensive, very detailed, and well-analysed book may well become one of the standard textbooks on the Cold War'. ""The Slavonic Review"""

Author Information

J.P.D. Dunbabin, formerly Reader in International Relations at Oxford University, has published over a wide range of topics including British and international history, The League of Nations and the United Nations.

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