War, Peace, and International Relations. An Introduction to Strategic History

military–strategic, geographical and historical contexts for which they are largely not responsible. Nothing in history is stric ...

Repeatedly, this book has emphasized the consequences of war for the peace that followed. This introduction concludes by specify ...

From cold peace to Cold War The nuclear age dawned explosively almost simultaneously with the first visible stirrings of what wa ...

in Poland was the single most potent source of fuel for the growing Western suspicion that their current, soon to be erstwhile, ...

responsibility for the onset, emergence and maturing of the Cold War. The question of blame for the Cold War carries the mislead ...

of world markets. In the immediate post-war years, Stalin sincerely expected Anglo- American relations to deteriorate to the poi ...

technological ground in the weaponization of nuclear physics, Western countries did not identify Moscow primarily as a military ...

and Khlevniuk, 2004; Westad, 2000). It is useful to cite these explicitly before discussing the course of the conflict in detail ...

The adventurous leadership of Nikita Khrushchev It is generally agreed that the Cold War divides fairly neatly into two periods: ...

because both sides considered it unduly risky to pursue conflict in Europe. The two Asian clashes aside, direct US–Soviet compet ...

thoroughgoing revolution was under way. East–West détente could not survive the subse- quent Soviet suppression of the revolt in ...

cynical geopoliticians in the West assumed that the Helsinki Accords were simply empty verbiage. Meanwhile, the critics of déten ...

candidates, President Jimmy Carter and the challenger, Ronald Reagan, in effect ran against the Soviet Union. Contributing to th ...

the Cold War: it was economically thoroughly outclassed by the United States, and its ideology dictated a character of political ...

of popular pressure, both political and physical. Gorbachev had decided that the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe was an expensiv ...

What had it been about? How could a virtual ‘war’ that lasted for more than forty years end so tamely? Had it all been a dreadfu ...

Soviet imperium to expand, and hence he overstated the necessity to contain Soviet power and influence. But when one bears in mi ...

historical record is fairly clear in suggesting that the initiative in the conflict typically was taken by Moscow, albeit often ...

Questions Who or what caused the Cold War? Why did the Cold War last for forty years? Why did the Cold War not conclude with Wo ...

15 The Cold War, II The nuclear revolution Introduction: the strategic challenge On reading the New York Times’ report on the at ...