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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780616303321

Autore

Gaddis John Lewis

Titolo

The United States and the end of the Cold War : implications, reconsiderations, provocations / / John Lewis Gaddis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 1994

©1992

ISBN

0-19-028211-8

0-19-972884-4

1-280-65489-9

9786610654895

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Disciplina

327.73047

Soggetti

Cold War

United States Foreign relations Soviet Union

Soviet Union Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations 1945-1953

Soviet Union Foreign relations 1945-1991

United States Foreign relations 1945-1989

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; ONE: The American Foreign Policy Style in the Twentieth Century; TWO: The Objectives of Containment; THREE: Morality and the American Experience in the Cold War; FOUR: The Unexpected John Foster Dulles; FIVE: Intelligence, Espionage, and Cold War History; SIX: The Essential Relevance of Nuclear Weapons; SEVEN: The Unexpected Ronald Reagan; EIGHT: How the Cold War Might End: An Exercise in Faulty Prediction; NINE: Tectonics, History, and the End of the Cold War; TEN: Great Illusions, the Long Peace, and the Future of the International System; ELEVEN: Toward the Post-Cold War World

Notes and AcknowledgmentsBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

The Cold War ended with an exhilarating wave of events: the toppling of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the dissident poet Vaclav Havel, the



revolution in Romania.  Americans rejoiced at the dramatic conclusion of the long struggle.  ""But victories in wars--hot or cold--tend to unfocus the mind,""writes John Gaddis.  ""It can be a dangerous thing to have achieved one's objectives, because one then has to decide what to do next.""  In The United States and the End of the Cold War, Gaddis provides a sharp focus on the long history of the Cold War, shedding new light on its sudden ending, as wellas