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Endings

Series The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume 3

Edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad

Publication Date 2010

Hardback ISBN-10
0521837219

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521837217

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521837217

Overview

This volume examines the evolution of the Cold War from the Helsinki Conference of 1975 until the Soviet collapse in 1991. Leading scholars analyze the economic, social, cultural, religious, technological, and geopolitical factors that shaped the policies that ended the Cold War, looking at the personalities and policies of Carter and Reagan, Brezhnev and Gorbachev, Thatcher, Kohl, and Deng Xiaoping. They show how events throughout the world shaped the evolution of Soviet-American relations and also explore the legacies of the super-power confrontation in a comparative and trans-national perspective. Penetrating chapters examine how the Cold War affected and was affected by the environment, the global economy, consumer capitalism, human rights and non-governmental organizations. The authors also deal with demographic trends, capital flows, multilateral institutions, and geopolitical configurations. This is international history at its best: emphasizing social, intellectual, economic and geostrategic trends without losing focus on personalities, politics, and human agency.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

The Cold War and the intellectual history of the late twentieth century
by
Jan-Werner Müller

The world economy and the Cold War, 1970–1990
by
Giovanni Arrighi

The rise and fall of Eurocommunism
by
Silvio Pons

The Cold War and Jimmy Carter
by
Nancy Mitchell

Soviet foreign policy from détente to Gorbachev, 1975–1985
by
Vladislav M. Zubok

Islamism, the Iranian revolution, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
by
Amin Saikal

The collapse of superpower détente, 1975–1980
by
Olav Njølstad

Japan and the Cold War, 1960–1991
by
Michael Schaller

China and the Cold War after Mao
by
Chen Jian

The Cold War in Central America, 1975–1991
by
John H. Coatsworth

The Cold War and southern Africa, 1976–1990
by
Chris Saunders and Sue Onslow

The Gorbachev revolution and the end of the Cold War
by
Archie Brown

US foreign policy under Reagan and Bush
by
Beth A. Fischer

Western Europe and the end of the Cold War, 1979–1989
by
John W. Young

The East European revolutions of 1989
by
Jacques Lévesque

The unification of Germany, 1985–1991
by
Helga Haftendorn

The collapse of the Soviet Union, 1990–1991
by
Alex Pravda

Science, technology, and the Cold War
by
David Reynolds

Transnational organizations and the Cold War
by
Matthew Evangelista

The biosphere and the Cold War
by
J. R. Mcneill

The Cold War and human rights
by
Rosemary Foot

The Cold War in the longue durée: global migration, public health, and population control
by
Matthew Connelly

Consumer capitalism and the end of the Cold War
by
Emily S. Rosenberg

An ‘incredibly swift transition’: reflections on the end of the Cold War
by
Adam Roberts

The restructuring of the international system after the Cold War
by
G. John Ikenberry

Bibliographical essay

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