Understanding the Cold War : history, approaches and debate / / Elspeth O'Riordan

• Autore: O'Riordan Elspeth
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (515 pages)
• Disciplina: 909.825
• Soggetto topico: Cold War; Economic history
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Notes -- Part I Early Cold War: Origins and Development -- 2 Historical Background: World War II and Tensions in the Wartime Alliance -- Wartime Diplomacy -- The Teheran Conference, 28 November-1 December 1943 -- The Fourth Moscow ('Tolstoy') Conference, 9-19 October 1944 -- The Yalta Conference, 4-11 February 1945 -- From Yalta to Potsdam -- The Potsdam Conference, 17 July-2 August 1945 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 The Origins of the Cold War in Europe: From World War II to the Berlin Blockade -- The Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) -- 1946: Suspicion Intensifies -- The Iran Crisis, Spring 1946 -- Germany -- The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan -- The Consolidation of Soviet Control Over Central and Eastern Europe -- Germany and the Berlin Blockade -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Studying the Cold War: Core Themes and Concepts-Is There a New International History of the Cold War? -- Historiographical Approaches to the Cold War -- The Orthodox School -- The Revisionist School -- Post-Revisionist Approaches -- 'New' Cold War History -- Cold War 'Studies'? -- The Development of International Relations as an Academic Discipline and Its Relationship with International History -- Liberalism -- Realism -- Behaviouralism -- Neorealism -- The English School -- Foreign Policy Analysis -- Constructivism -- International Political Economy and Neo-Marxist Theories -- International Relations Since the End of the Cold War -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 The Early Development of the Cold War in Europe: The Division of Germany, the Formation of NATO and European Integration -- The Division of Germany -- The Formation of NATO -- European Integration and the Cold War -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 The Origins of the Cold War in East Asia: The Emergence of Communist China, Japan and the Korean War. ; The Chinese Civil War and the Emergence of Communist China -- The Soviet Union -- The US -- Japan -- The Korean War -- Korea's Conflict -- The Cold War and the Outbreak of the Korean War -- Kim Il Sung's Decision to Invade ROK -- Mao's Decision to Intervene -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II Mid-Cold War: The Widening Contest -- 7 The Superpowers and the Cold War in the 1950s -- The Soviet Union -- Domestic-Political and Economic Context -- The 'Thaw' -- 1956: Crisis in Eastern Europe -- The US -- Domestic Context -- Containment -- McCarthyism -- The Eisenhower Presidency -- The New Look -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Crises, 1958-1962 -- The Berlin Crises -- Background -- Khrushchev's Motives -- The Crises -- The Offshore Islands Crises and the Sino-Soviet Split -- Mao's Motives -- The United States' Role -- Summary: The Significance of the Offshore Islands Crises to the Cold War -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Overview -- Khrushchev's Motives -- The CMC Legacy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 The Vietnam War -- A Struggle for Colonial Independence and National Liberation -- The Impact of World War II on Southeast Asia -- The First Vietnam War: France and the Viet Minh, 1946-1954 -- Vietnam Divided, 1955-1959 -- America's War, 1960-1968 -- Towards a Resolution, 1968-1973 -- The Vietnam War and Cold War Scholarship -- Regional Perspective -- Global Perspective -- Notes -- 10 The Cold War and the Third World: Latin America -- The US and the Third World: Modernisation Theory -- The Soviet Union and the Third World: Peaceful Coexistence -- China and the Third World -- Latin America -- Background -- 1950s -- 1960s -- The US -- Soviet Union -- 1970s -- The US and Chile -- The Soviet Union and Latin America in the 1970s -- Angola -- The Ogaden War -- 1980s -- Latin America and Cold War Scholarship -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11 The Middle East and the Cold War. ; The Interwar Years -- The Early Cold War -- The 1950s -- The Iran Coup, 1953 -- Nasser and the Rise of Arab Nationalism -- The Suez Crisis -- The 'Arab Cold War' -- The 1960s -- The Six Day War, 1967 -- The 1970s -- Black September -- The Yom Kippur War, 1973 -- The Camp David Summit, September 1978 -- The Iranian Revolution -- The 1980s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 12 Waging the Cold War -- Military Competition: Nuclear -- Early Cold War -- Nuclear Strategy -- Later Cold War -- Military Competition: Conventional -- Conventional Military Strategy and the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' -- Science and Technology -- Intelligence and Covert Operations -- Espionage -- Surveillance -- Covert Operations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III Late Cold War: Détente and the Final Years -- 13 Détente -- European Détente -- Context and Rationale -- Key Developments -- Superpower Détente -- 'Triangular Diplomacy' and the Opening to China -- Superpower Summits -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 14 The Travails of Détente -- Global Influences -- European Complications -- Superpower Relations -- The Vienna Summit, June 1979 -- Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan -- The Collapse of Détente -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 15 Beyond Geopolitics: Economics, Culture and the Transnational Cold War -- Introduction -- Economics -- Trade -- Agriculture -- Aid -- Culture -- Culture as Creative Output -- The Relationship Between Culture and Propaganda -- Culture as an Anthropological Discourse -- Gender -- Religion -- Human Rights -- Early Cold War -- Mid-Cold War -- Late Cold War -- The Counter-Culture -- The Environment and the Biosphere -- Medicine -- The United Nations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 16 The Superpowers and the End of the Cold War -- Ronald Reagan's Foreign Policy and the Cold War in the 1980s -- Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union and the Cold War in the 1980s. ; Superpower Summits and Arms Control Negotiations, 1985-1988 -- The Geneva Summit, 19-21 November 1985 -- The Reykjavik Summit, 11-12 October 1986 -- The Washington Summit, 7-10 December 1987 -- The Moscow Summit, 29 May-2 June 1988 -- The Neoliberal Turn -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 17 Regional Finales -- The Middle East -- Latin America -- Soviet Pullback in the Third World -- East and Southeast Asia and China -- Europe -- The Reunification of Germany and Disintegration of the Soviet Union -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Understanding the Cold War
• ISBN: 9783031060755; 9783031060748
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910627250903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II