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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Uneasy Allies, 1941-1945 -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Downward Spiral during the Truman-Stalin Years, 1945-1953 -- Issues in the Emerging Cold War -- Images and Domestic Politics Harm Relations -- Counterparts: George Kennan and Nikolai Novikov -- Containment and Countercontainment, 1947-1949 -- The Most Dangerous Phase, 1950-1952 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The Institutionalized Cold War, 1953-1962 -- The Cold War at Home -- A Modest Improvement in East-West Relations, 1953-1955 -- The Second Dangerous Phase, 1956-1962 -- Showdown: The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Shift toward Relative Détente, 1963-1972 -- An Improved Atmosphere in 1963 -- Vietnam at Center Stage, 1964-1968 -- Toward a New Balance of Power, 1969-1972 -- Counterparts: Daniel Ellsberg and Henry Kissinger -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Roller-Coaster Years, 1973-1984 -- Détente Bogs Down, 1973-1976 -- Different understandings of détente -- Continuing competition in the third world -- The continuing arms race despite SALT -- The lack of consensus in American public opinion -- The decline in presidential leadership in foreign policy -- Senator Jackson's congressional assault on détente -- Détente as an issue in the election of 1976 -- Carter Rides the Roller Coaster, 1977-1980 -- Reagan Challenges the Cold War Status Quo, 1981-1984 -- Counterparts: Jeane Kirkpatrick and Christopher Dodd -- Seeking Improved US-Soviet Relations, 1983-1984 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Epilogue: The Cold War Ends, 1985-1991 -- Bibliographical Essay -- General Works -- Prologue (1941-1945) and Chapter 1 (1945-1953) -- Chapter 2 (1953-1962) -- Chapter Three (1963-1972) -- Chapter Four (1973-1984) and Epilogue (1985-1991) -- Index.

Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Atomic - Nuclear Weapons and International Relations -- Chapter 2: Two Tribes - NATO and the Warsaw Pact -- Chapter 3: Careless Whisper - Spies and Traitors -- Chapter 4: Going Underground - Civil Defence -- Chapter 5: Fight the Power - The Protest Movement -- Chapter 6: Africa - Proxy Wars -- Chapter 7: The Land of Make Believe - Cold War Culture -- Chapter 8: Everything Changes - After the Cold War -- Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover.

By 1990, the first Cold War was ending. The Berlin Wall had fallen and the Warsaw Pact was crumbling; following Russia's lead, cries for democracy were being embraced by a young Chinese populace. The post-Cold War years were a time of immense hope and possibility. They heralded an opportunity for creative cooperation among nations, an end to ideological strife, perhaps even the beginning of a stable international order of liberal peace. But the days of optimism are over. As renowned international relations expert Michael Doyle makes hauntingly clear, we now face the devastating specter of a new Cold War, this time orbiting the trilateral axes of Russia, the United States, and China, and exacerbated by new weapons of cyber warfare and more insidious forms of propaganda. Such a conflict at this phase in our global history would have catastrophic repercussions, Doyle argues, stymieing global collaboration efforts that are key to reversing climate change, preventing the next pandemic, and securing nuclear nonproliferation. The recent, devastating invasion of Ukraine is both an example and an augur of the costs that lay in wait. However, there is hope. Putin is not Stalin, Xi is not Mao, and no autocrat is a modern Hitler. There is also an unprecedented level of shared global interest in prosperity and protecting the planet from environmental disaster. While it is unlikely that the United States, Russia, and China will ever establish a "warm peace," there are significant, reasonable compromises between nations that can lead to a détente. While the future remains very much in doubt, the elegant set of accords and non-subversion pacts Doyle proposes in this book may very well save the world.

"Two nations. Two ideologies. One Cold War. From 1947 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union, the two biggest superpowers in the world, engaged in an open rivalry known as the Cold War. The rivalry was a build-up of tensions that defined the two nations for years to come."--