This text explains the Cold War mindset that determined global policy for much of the 20th century. It also reveals how the search to define a foreign threat can shape the ways in which that threat is actually met.
Reassessment of President Truman's profound influence on U.S. foreign policy and the Cold War. The author contends that Truman remained a parochial nationalist who lacked the vision and leadership to move the United States away from conflict and toward détente. Instead, he promo…
In this era of globalization, it is easy to forget that today's free market values were not always predominant. But as this history of the birth of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) shows, the principles and practices underlying our current international economy …
Analisa a importância da Alemanha no cenário da guerra fria, durante os anos de 1945 a 1963. Desenvolve o argumento de que o poder da Alemanha, sobretudo o poder nuclear alemão, foi o principal problema para o estabelecimento de um sistema internacional estável e pacífico na Eur…
American science fiction, both literature and film, has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in the Cold War. Working through key texts, this work investigates the political inflexions put on American narratives in the post-war decades by Cold War cultural ci…
William Stueck presents a fresh analysis of the Korean War's major diplomatic and strategic issues. Drawing on a cache of newly available information from archives in the United States, China, and the former Soviet Union, he provides an interpretive synthesis for scholars and ge…
William Stueck presents a fresh analysis of the Korean War's major diplomatic and strategic issues. Drawing on a cache of newly available information from archives in the United States, China, and the former Soviet Union, he provides an interpretive synthesis for scholars and ge…
Fought on what to Westerners was a remote peninsula in northeast Asia, the Korean War was a defining moment of the Cold War. It militarized a conflict that previously had been largely political and economic. And it solidified a series of divisions--of Korea into North and South,…
William Stueck presents a fresh analysis of the Korean War's major diplomatic and strategic issues. Drawing on a cache of newly available information from archives in the United States, China, and the former Soviet Union, he provides an interpretive synthesis for scholars and ge…
"This book provides the first comprehensive description and critique of the six most important historical interpretations of US Cold War foreign policy: Traditionalism, Revisionism, Post-revisionism, Corporatism, World Systems Theory and Post-structuralism." "The author uses the…
This book provides the first comprehensive description and critique of the six most important historical interpretations of US Cold War foreign policy: Traditionalism, Revisionism, Post-Revisionism, Corporatism, World Systems Theory, and Post-Structuralism. The author uses the '…
