The End of the Cold War: Its Meaning and ImplicationsMichael J. Hogan This timely collection of essays offers one of the first, serious efforts to examine the end of the Cold War. The book presents the thinking of leading historians, political scientists, policy analysts, and commentators from the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Norway and the former Soviet Union. Together they discuss such important issues as the origins of the Cold War, its ideological and geopolitical sources, the cost of that epic conflict, its influence on American life and institutions, its winners and losers. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
An End to Which Cold War? | 13 |
The Cold War the Long Peace and the Future | 21 |
Quiet Cataclysm Some Afterthoughts on World War III | 39 |
Some Lessons from the Cold War | 53 |
Nuclear Weapons and European Security during the Cold War | 63 |
Victory in the Postwar Era Despite the Cold War or Because of It? | 77 |
The Wicked Witch of the West is Dead Long Live the Wicked Witch of the East | 87 |
The End of the Cold War in the Near East What It Means for Historians and Policy Planners | 161 |
After the Cold War The United States Germany and European Security | 175 |
The End of the Cold War A Skeptical View | 185 |
The End of the Cold War the New Role for Europe and the Decline of the United States | 195 |
The Fading of the Cold Warand the Demystification of TwentiethCentury Issues | 207 |
The US Government a Legacy of the Cold War | 217 |
Foreign Policy Partisan Politics and the End of the Cold War | 229 |
Beyond Bipolarity in Space and Time | 245 |
The End and the Beginning | 103 |
A Balance Sheet Lippmann Kennan and the Cold War | 113 |
Why Did the Cold War Arise and Why Did It End? | 127 |
A View from Below | 137 |
The End of the Cold War and the Middle East | 151 |
A Usable Past for the Future | 257 |
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