Long Peace Inquiries into the History of the Cold War

Name: Long Peace Inquiries into the History of the Cold War
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ISBN: 9780195043358

ISBN-10: 0195043359

ISBN-13: 9780195043358

Edition: 1987 (Reprint)

Authors: John Lewis Gaddis

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How has it happened that the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get through more than four decades of Cold War confrontation without going to war with one another? Historian John Lewis Gaddis suggests answer to this and other vital questions about post-war diplomacy in this new book.Gaddis uses recently declassified American and British documents to explore several key issues in Cold War history that remain unresolved: Precisely what itwas about the Soviet Union's behaviour after World War II that American leaders found so threatening? Whether the United States really wanted a sphere of influence in post-war Europe? What led the Truman administration first to endorse, but…

Book details

List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/2/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.39" wide x 7.99" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

John Lewis Gaddis is Robert A. Lovett Professor of History and Political Science at Yale University.



The Long Peace


Preface



Legacies: Russian-American Relations before the Cold War



The Insecurities of Victory: the United States and the Perception of the Soviet Threat after World War II



Spheres of Influences: the United States and Europe, 1945-1949



Drawing Lines: the Defensive Perimeter Strategy in East Asia, 1947-1951



The Origins of Self-Deterrence: the United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons, 1945-1958



Dividing Adversaries: the United States and International Communism, 1945-1958



Learning to Live with Transparency: the Emergence of a Reconnaissance Satellite Regime



The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System


Notes


Bibliography


Index