Rethinking the Cold War
The end of the Cold War should have been an occasion to reassess its origins, history, significance, and consequences. Yet most commentators have restated positions already developed during the Cold War. They have taken the break-up of the Soviet Union, the shift toward capitalism and electoral politics in Eastern Europe and countries formerly in the USSR as evidence of a moral and political victory for the United States that needs no further elaboration. This collection of essays offers a more…
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- Full title :Rethinking the Cold War / edited by Allen Hunter.
Summary
The end of the Cold War should have been an occasion to reassess its origins, history, significance, and consequences. Yet most commentators have restated positions already developed during the Cold War. They have taken the break-up of the Soviet Union, the shift toward capitalism and electoral politics in Eastern Europe and countries formerly in the USSR as evidence of a moral and political victory for the United States that needs no further elaboration. This collection of essays offers a more complex and nuanced analysis of Cold War history. It challenges the prevailing perspective, which editor Allen Hunter terms "vindicationism." Writing from different disciplinary and conceptual vantage points, the contributors to the collection invite a rethinking of what the Cold War was, how fully it defined the decades after World War II, what forces sustained it, and what forces led to its demise. By exploring a wide range of central themes of the era, Rethinking the Cold War widens the discussion of the Cold War's place in post-war history and intellectual life.
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- Publication Date:1998.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Temple University Press
- Place of Publication:Philadelphia
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 309 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781439904565, 1439904561, 1566395615, 9781566395618, 1566395623, 9781566395625
- oclc:ocn646066417
- LC Classification:D843
- Dewey Decimal:909.82
Table of Contents
Introduction : the limits of vindicationist scholarship / Allen Hunter -- Rethinking the Cold War and after : from containment to enlargement / Walter LaFeber -- Rethinking the division of Germany / Carolyn Eisenberg -- Revising postrevision : credibility and hegemony in the early Cold War / Thomas D. Lairson -- A requiem for the Cold War : reviewing the history of international relations since 1945 / Cary Fraser -- Cold War capital accumulation, and labor control in Latin America : the closing of a cycle, 1945-1990 / Ian Roxborough -- Castro in Harlem : a Cold War watershed / Brenda Gayle Plummer -- The end of the Cold War and why we failed to predict it / Michael Cox -- Mythmaking about the character of the Cold War / Charles W. Kegley, Jr. and Shannon Lindsey Blanton -- Nations and blocs : toward a theory of the political economy of the interstate model in Europe / Mary Kaldor -- Warsaw pact socialism : detente and the disintegration of the Soviet bloc / Harriet Friedmann -- After the Cold War : international relations in the period of the latest "new world order" / Ronen Palan -- Academic research protocols and the Pax Americana : American economics during the Cold War era / M…
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