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| Foreword to the second edition | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Who's who | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Maps | |
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| Context | |
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| Introduction: The Problem | |
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| Ideas and Beliefs | |
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| Security | |
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| Culture | |
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| The Cold War in Perspective | |
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| Cold War I | |
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| Brinkmanship | |
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| Detente | |
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| Cold War II and the end of the Cold War | |
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| Characteristics of the Cold War | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Cold War I: 1949-1953 | |
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| The Berlin Blockade | |
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| China | |
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| NSC-68 | |
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| The War in Korea | |
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| To The Brink and Back: 1953-1969 | |
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| The Search for a new Relationship | |
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| Khrushchev takes over | |
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| The Geneva Summit | |
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| The Hungarian Revolution | |
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| Asia | |
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| The Middle East | |
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| Other Third World States | |
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| Brinkmanship: Berlin | |
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| Brinkmanship: Cuba | |
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| The War in Vietnam | |
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| Detente: 1969-1979 | |
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| Forging a new Relationship | |
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| A new President and a new Approach | |
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| China Changes Sides: Rapprochement with America | |
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| SALT | |
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| The German Problem Defused | |
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| The Middle East | |
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| The Agenda Changes as Ford Takes Over | |
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| Africa | |
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| The Helsinki Accord | |
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| A new President Sows Confusion | |
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| Carter and Brezhnev reach agreement on SALT II but on little else | |
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| Cold War II: 1979-1985 | |
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| Detente Fails to Satisfy American Aspirations | |
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| Carter's Mixed Record | |
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| Disastrous Decision Making in Moscow: Intervention in Afghanistan | |
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| Carter, Brzezinski and Cold War II | |
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| A new President and a new Departure | |
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| Andropov and Reagan: Missed Opportunities | |
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| Failure and Success for America | |
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| The Ground is Prepared for Better Relations with Russia | |
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| Reagan Improves Relations with China | |
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| New Political Thinking and the end of the Cold War: 1985-1991 | |
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| The new Political Thinking | |
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| The Gorbachev-Reagan Summits | |
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| The Bush-Gorbachev Relationship is Slow to Develop | |
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| Gorbachev and Europe: our Common Home | |
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| Germany Unites | |
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| Gorbachev and Eastern Europe | |
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| Gorbachev and China | |
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| Gorbachev's Domestic Difficulties Cause Problems for Bush | |
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| The Gulf War Leads to Joint Superpower Policy | |
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| Gorbachev's Problems Mount | |
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| The Last Summit | |
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| The Attempted Coup and After | |
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| Assessment | |
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| The Judgement | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Sources of Hostility Between the Superpowers | |
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| Why did America come to Guarantee West European Security? | |
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| Why did Russia and America Gradually become Systemic Rivals? | |
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| A Hard Lesson for the Superpowers: Empires are Liabilities | |
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| Is there a Link between Good Government and Economic Prosperity? | |
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| Was the Growth of Nuclear Arsenals Inevitable? | |
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| Why did the Cold War end? | |
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| America's Changing Doctrine | |
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| Was the USA an Imperialist Power? | |
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| Documents | |
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| Khrushchev and Diversionary Tactics | |
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| Khrushchev and China | |
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| Kennedy and Vietnam | |
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| Kennedy, Khrushchev and Cuba | |
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| Kissinger, Brezhnev and Detente | |
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| The KGB | |
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| The KGB and Italy | |
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| The Russians and the Palestinians | |
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| Afghanistan | |
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| Poland | |
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| A Top Adviser's Withering Criticism of Soviet Foreign Policy | |
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| Gorbachev's New Thinking | |
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| The Reykjavik Summit | |
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| Gorbachev, Reagan and SDI | |
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| Gorbachev and Mrs Thatcher | |
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| Moscow and Fraternal Parties | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |