Bøger i Cold War History serien

This edited volume analyses European socialist countries' strategy of engagement with the West and the European Economic Community in the long 1970s.

This volume focuses on the interconnections between the Cold War, technological innovation and globalization.

This book explores the largely neglected issue of responses to the US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI, or the 'Star Wars' missile defence programme) across NATO.

This edited volume analyses European socialist countries¿ strategy of engagement with the West and the European Economic Community in the long 1970s.

Although seen widely as the twentieth-century's great religious war, as a conflict between the god-fearing and the godless, the religious dimension of the Cold War has never been subjected to a scholarly critique. A specially commissioned collection of new scholarship, it provides fresh insights into the complex nature of the Cold War.

This book examines British policy-makers' attitudes to cooperation with the USSR and shows how views of internal developments in the USSR and of Stalin himself influenced Churchill, the War Cabinet and the Foreign Office to believe that long-term collaboration was a desirable and achievable goal.

This work examines in a comparative historical way the socialist, liberal and conservative strands of Anglo-American anticommunist thought before the Cold War.

Translation of: Mao Zedong, Sidalin yu Chaoxian zhan zheng.

Presents a comprehensive analysis of Greek foreign and internal policy during the Cold War, covering the key period from the country's accession to NATO in 1952 until the imposition of the colonels' dictatorship in 1967. This book is of interest to students of Greek politics, Balkans history, the Cold War and strategic studies.

Examines how the United States trade embargo on the Soviet Union and communist China severed relationships with Europe, particularly focusing on Great Britain. This book provides insights into the changing emphasis between the Republican and Democrat administrations on the key question of trade embargo.

Examines the US police and paramilitary assistance to the regime in South Vietnam to combat the spread of communist revolution during the 1955-1963 period. Given the scale of its efforts, and the Diem regime's importance to the US leadership, this text identifies the key factors that contributed to the failure of American policy.

Examines the impact of American perceptions of the military balance between the United States and the Soviet Union during the key period of 1976-1985. This book shows how the perceptions of the 1970s contributed to key policy decisions in the 1980s, which themselves played a significant role in bringing the Cold War to an end.

Presents an explanation for the collapse of the process of normalization of Yugoslav-Soviet that occurred at the end of 1956 and the renewal of their ideological confrontation. This book also explains the motives that guided the two main protagonists, Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia and the Soviet leader Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev.

Talks about the roles of Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev and their efforts to achieve a compromise settlement on the pivotal Berlin Crisis. This book demonstrates how the British Prime Minister acted to prevent the crisis sliding into a disastrous nuclear conflict. It is suitable for students of Soviet foreign policy and the Cold War.

Examines the key relationship between Willy Brandt (the former Mayor of West Berlin) and the administration of President John F Kennedy. This book also focuses on the administration's influence on the development of Brandt's 'policy of small steps' and the formation of his later Ostpolitik, the centrepiece of European detente.

Details the ambiguity in British policy towards Europe in the Cold War as it sought to pursue detente with the Soviet Union whilst upholding its commitments to its NATO allies. This book is intended for students of Cold War history, British foreign policy, German politics, and international history.

This original study based on documents, hitherto not discussed in literature of the Cold War, adds a significant new perspective to an important episode in Cold War History. This book makes use of newly declassified files and, for the first time, reveals the true purposes and intentions of the Warsaw Pact in those negotiations.

This volume highlights the complex intra-alliance politics of what was seen as the likeliest flash point of conflict in the Cold War and demonstrates how strongly determinant were concerns about relationships with allies in the choices made by all the major governments.

The book, which is based on research in American and British archives, presents new evidence to suggest that Anglo-American relations in East-West trade were characterised by friction and conflict as the two countries clashed over divergent commercial and strategic perceptions of the Soviet Union.

Why did NATO expand its membership during the Cold War years, and what was its attraction to new members? This book locates the answers to these questions not solely in the Cold War, but in the historical problems of international order in Europe and the growing idea of the West.

The question of the Italian colonies played an important part in the breakdown of Allied cooperation after the Second World War. Based on extensive research in British and American archives, this book will seek to analyse British and US policy on this question within its Cold War context.

This book examines the response of the Western Alliance to the Polish Crisis (1980-83). The author analyses the different views of Europe and the United States regarding enforcement in East-West relations and the opposition in Western Europe to the American approach.

Analyzes how the Soviet leadership evaluated developments in Soviet-Vietnamese relations in the years from 1949 to 1964. Focusing on how Soviet leaders perceived China's role in Vietnam, this book shows how these perceptions influenced the Soviet-Vietnamese relationship. It is useful for students with an interest in Soviet-Vietnamese relations.