The Cold War
The Great Powers and their Allies
2nd Edition
Published on 4. December 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
688 pages
978-0-582-42398-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Cold War offers a brief but detailed treatment of one of the most complex eras of the 20th Century.
In this fully revised second edition, J.P.D. Dunbabin, drawing on international scholarship and using much new material from communist sources, describes a world in which covert operations could be as important as outright diplomacy, 'soft' power as influential as 'hard', and in which competing ideologies ruled the hearts as much as the heads of the leaders in power.
Dunbabin's account is global in scope, taking into account the importance of players beyond the superpowers, and shedding light on the proxy conflicts such as those in Africa and the Middle East that, if not caused by the continuing stalemate between the great powers, were used as weapons within it.
In this fully revised second edition, J.P.D. Dunbabin, drawing on international scholarship and using much new material from communist sources, describes a world in which covert operations could be as important as outright diplomacy, 'soft' power as influential as 'hard', and in which competing ideologies ruled the hearts as much as the heads of the leaders in power.
Dunbabin's account is global in scope, taking into account the importance of players beyond the superpowers, and shedding light on the proxy conflicts such as those in Africa and the Middle East that, if not caused by the continuing stalemate between the great powers, were used as weapons within it.
Reviews / Votes
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
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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
1027 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-42398-5 (9780582423985)
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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.
Content
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. Detente in Europe
8. The United States, China and the World
9. The rise and fall of Detente 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
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. Detente in Europe
8. The United States, China and the World
9. The rise and fall of Detente 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