Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Cold War
Published on 4. February 1999
Book
Hardback
294 pages
978-1-84014-441-3 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of papers all have broad assumptions underpinning them. The Cold War has been used all too often to set the parameters of what is important to explain in international affairs in the postwar period. While not denying the importance of the sequence of events that is drawn together by the colligation, all the authors challenge the adequacy of the Cold War as a framework for explaining international relations. The authors point to relationships, events and policy developments that do not fit in the framework, raise questions about the nature of explanation offered by the use of the concept of the Cold War, and demonstrate the one dimensional understandings that adherence to a Cold War structuring of the events of the postwar period produces.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 159 mm
Width: 223 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84014-441-3 (9781840144413)
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Content
Part 1 Theory: reconstructing the Cold War - the evolution of a consuming paradigm, Alastair Murray; explaining the Cold War, Charles Reynolds. Part 2 Stretching out the paradigms: Anglo-American relations and the Cold War, Alan P. Dobson; the limits of US Cold War hegemony - lessons from the Anglo-Iranian oil crisis, Steve Marsh; explaining outside interests in the Persian Gulf, Shahin P. Malik; the great simplifier - the Cold War and South Africa, Graham Evans; the United States and India - the challenge of neutralism to bipolarity, Jacqueline Dix. Part 3 Beyond the paradigms: the cross and the bear - the Vatican's Cold War diplomacy in East Central Europe, David Ryall; learning from the Cold War nuclear confrontation, Paul Rogers; Soviet and Russian perspectives on the Cold War, Robert Bideleux. Part 4 Conclusion: the Cold War in the context of world history, Clive Ponting.