Table of Contents

PART ONE: OVERVIEW
1. The Cold war: An Overview
2. The Strategic Dimension of East-West competition
PART TWO: EAST-WEST RELATIONS 1945-1991
3. The Start of the Cold War
4. The Nadir of the Cold War
5. The Kruschev Years Detentes, Challenges, Crises
6. The Vietnam War and Other Proxy Conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s
7. Détente in Europe
8. The United States, China and the World
9. The rise and fall of Détente in the 1960s and 1970s
10. Tension and the ending of the Cold war in the 1980s
PART THREE: EUROPE WEST AND EAST AND THE SINO-SOCIET SPLIT
11. Western Europe I: The Political Order
12. Western Europe II: France, Germany, Britain, and the USA
13. Western Europe III: The European Union
14. Splits in the Communist World
15. Eastern Europe since 1957
PART FOUR: CONCLUSION
16. Perspectives on the Cold War and its Aftermath

Promotional Information

Covers the Cold War’s main adversaries, the USAand USSR, their immediate allies and their spheres of influence in a divided post-war Europe.

Promotional Information

Covers the Cold War's main adversaries, the USAand USSR, their immediate allies and their spheres of influence in a divided post-war Europe.

About the Author

J.P.D. Dunbabin, formerly Reader in International Relations at Oxford University, has published over a wide range of topics including British and international history, The League of Nations and the United Nations.

Reviews

Reviews of the first edition: '[This volume] represents quite a remarkable achievement, drawing together the results of a vast array of research on post-war international affairs in a readable and remarkably well-structured way'. "History" 'Dunbabin's comprehensive, very detailed, and well-analysed book may well become one of the standard textbooks on the Cold War'. "The Slavonic Review"