THE END OF THE COLD WAR: Perestroika and the End of the Cold War
In: Cold war history: a Frank Cass journal, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 1-18
ISSN: 1468-2745
In: Cold war history: a Frank Cass journal, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 1-18
ISSN: 1468-2745
In: Ends of Empire, S. 37-62
In: Journal of Cold War studies, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 162
ISSN: 1520-3972
Until recently, scholars of the Cold War had devoted little attention to the role of religion in the East-West standoff -- its impact on events, institutions, and strategies. In recent years, however, this lacuna has begun to be filled by a burgeoning literature on different aspects of religion and the Cold War. The outpouring of scholarship has given a much more nuanced picture of how religion influenced U.S. foreign policy after 1945 both domestically and internationally. This article evaluates four recent books about the topic, distilling from them some of the key questions to be answered about the religious dimension of the Cold War. Adapted from the source document.
In: Secret History
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 49, Heft 1, S. 1
ISSN: 0020-7020
In: Pocket Histories
The Cold War dominated international relations in the second half of the 20th century in an all-embracing ideological and military conflict between communism and democracy. This survey shows the Cold War as the consequence of the breakdown of the existing international system during the two world wars and a new great power alignment which emerged to fill the vacuum created in both Europe and Asia as existing states and imperial powers lost their former predominance. The text draws on recent scholarship on the Cold War, based not only upon materials from US, British, Canadian, Australian a
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In: A Political and Diplomatic History of the Modern World
Immediately following World War II, former allies the United States and the Soviet Union began an open yet restricted rivalry that became known as the Cold War and played out around the world until the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. Many conflicts, such as the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Arab-Israeli wars, acted as proxy wars for the U.S.-Soviet competition. Other major issues explored in this examination of the Cold War include Europe's Iron Curtain, the nuclear arms race, decolonization in Africa, and the spread of communism into Latin America and Southeast
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 321-329
ISSN: 1469-9044
Over recent years the birth of the post-war world—of the East—West divide in Germany and Europe; the Soviet preponderance in the East; and the Atlantic alliance—has come to exert an enormous attraction over academics and students, and as the archives have been opened in Britain, America and elsewhere, the year 1945 has ceased to be a 'barrier' for historical studies.
In: A Companion to Europe since 1945, S. 5-24