Books in the Cold War History series

This edited volume analyses European socialist countries¿ strategy of engagement with the West and the European Economic Community in the long 1970s.

Analyzes how the Soviet leadership evaluated developments in Soviet-Vietnamese relations in the years from 1949 to 1964. Focusing on how Soviet leaders perceived China's role in Vietnam, this book shows how these perceptions influenced the Soviet-Vietnamese relationship. It is useful for students with an interest in Soviet-Vietnamese relations.

Offers an exploration of the last phase of the Cold War, taking a critical look at the crisis of detente in Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This book covers topics such as human rights, the Euromissiles, the CSCE, the Revolution in Military Affairs, and economic growth and its consequences.

Details the ambiguity in British policy towards Europe in the Cold War as it sought to pursue detente with the Soviet Union whilst upholding its commitments to its NATO allies. This book is intended for students of Cold War history, British foreign policy, German politics, and international history.

Talks about the roles of Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev and their efforts to achieve a compromise settlement on the pivotal Berlin Crisis. This book demonstrates how the British Prime Minister acted to prevent the crisis sliding into a disastrous nuclear conflict. It is suitable for students of Soviet foreign policy and the Cold War.

Re-assesses the relationship between the United States, the Soviet Union and key regional players in waging and halting conflict in the Middle East between 1967 and 1973. This book is of interest to students of Cold War studies, Middle Eastern history, strategic studies and international history.

This book is the first international history of the Third Indochina War, and features contributors from many different countries and scholarly traditions.

The book, which is based on research in American and British archives, presents new evidence to suggest that Anglo-American relations in East-West trade were characterised by friction and conflict as the two countries clashed over divergent commercial and strategic perceptions of the Soviet Union.

The question of the Italian colonies played an important part in the breakdown of Allied cooperation after the Second World War. Based on extensive research in British and American archives, this book will seek to analyse British and US policy on this question within its Cold War context.

Using recently declassified sources, this book provides the first detailed analysis of British and American propaganda targeting the countries of the Middle East during the years of increasing international tension and regional instability immediately following the end of the Second World War.

This title examines the role of the Europeans in the Cold War during the 'Khrushchev Era' (1953-65).

This book examines the international dimensions of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967-74 and uses it as a case study to evaluate the major shifts occurring in the international system during a period of rapid change.

Presents a study of the European Community's development between 1963 and 1969, with a special focus on the struggle between France and its EC partners over the purpose, structure and membership of the emerging European Community.

This book examines how technology has affected national security, focusing on issues such as definitions of peace and war, the conduct of and military organization for war, and the growing role of the private sector in providing security. This is a

Since the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe. This volume takes stock of where these new materials have taken us in our understanding of what the cold war was about and how we should study it.

Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1964 offers new perspectives on ways in which Britain fought the Cold War, and illuminates key areas of the policy formulation process.

Making use of newly-researched archival material, this collection of original essays on wartime and postwar US foreign policy re-evaluates well-known crises and documents many less familiar aspects of the nation's mid-twentieth century conflicts.

The question of the Italian colonies played an important part in the breakdown of Allied cooperation after the Second World War. Based on extensive research in British and American archives, this book will analyze British and US policy on this question within its Cold War context.

This book offers a major new interpretation of the Cold War and how its aftermath shaped the course of history. The book offers new information taken from Eastern and Western archives, and for the first time draws a precise and detailed overall picture of how the Cold War was overcome.

Containing essays by leading Cold War scholars, such as Wilfried Loth, Geir Lundestad and Seppo Hentilä, this volume offers a broad-ranging examination of the history of détente in the Cold War.