Olav Njolstad (ed.)

The Last Decade of the Cold War

From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation
Herausgeber: Njolstad, Olav

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Produktbeschreibung

The last decade of the Cold War witnessed the transformation of world politics with the collapse of one-party Communist rule in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. This book explains how it happened and why.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 851g
• ISBN-13: 9780714654645
• ISBN-10: 0714654647
• Artikelnr.: 22246815

Autorenporträt

Olav Njølstad is Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway. He holds a Ph.D. in international history from the University of Oslo (1994), where he also teaches. He has published a number of books and articles on the history of nuclear weapons and atomic energy research, US-Soviet relations in the 1970s, and Norwegian foreign policy.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The 1980s in Historical Context 1. The 1980s Revisited or the Cold
War as History - Again 2. The Beginning and the End: Time, context and the
Cold War 3. The European Role in the Beginning and Particularly the End of
the Cold War Part 2: Explaining the Shift in Soviet Thinking and Policy 4.
Economic Constraints and the Turn toward Superpower Cooperation in the
1980s 5. Explaining the End of the Cold War: Turning points in Soviet
security policy 6. The Sources of 'New Thinking' in Soviet Politics 7. The
Messianic Character of Gorbachev's 'New Thinking': Why and what for? Part
3: The United States and the Ending of the Cold War 8. The US Role in
Winding Down the Cold War, 1980-90 9. The Carter Legacy: Entering the
second era of the Cold War 10. The US and the Transformation of the Cold
War 11. Reagan's Anti-revolutionary Offensive in the Third World Part 4:
Europe in the Last Decade of the Cold War 12. Germany in the Last Decade of
the Cold War 13. Before the Wall: French diplomacy and the last decade of
the Cold War, 1979-89 14. Helping to Open the Door?: Britain in the last
decade of the Cold War 15. Italy and the Battle of the Euromissiles 16.
NATO's Northern Frontline in the 1980s 17. Playground of Superpowers:
Poland 1980-89 - A view from inside 18. Did Gorbachev Liberate Eastern
Europe?