Table of Contents

Part 1 Argument and method: introduction; states and blocs. Part 2 The cold war: the debate about the origins of the cold war; stalinism and East-Central Europe; the making of Atlanticism; is there an East-West conflict?. Part 3 Detente and new cold war: differing conceptions of detente; reform and "normalization" in post-stalinist societies; the erosion of Atlanticism; why did detente fail?. Part 4 The military confrontation: imagined strategies; real resources; beyond detente?.