Marc Trachtenberg

A Constructed Peace (eBook, ePUB)

The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

People still think of the Cold War as a simple two-sided conflict, a kind of gigantic arm wrestle on a global scale," writes Marc Trachtenberg, "but this view fails to grasp the essence of what was really going on." America and Russia were both willing to live with the status quo in Europe. What then could have generated the kind of conflict that might have led to a nuclear holocaust? This is the great puzzle of the Cold War, and in this book, the product of nearly twenty years of work, Trachtenberg tries to solve it.

The answer, he says, has to do with the German question, especially with the German nuclear question. These issues lay at the heart of the Cold War, and a relatively stable peace took shape only when they were resolved. The book develops this argument by telling a story--a complex story involving many issues of detail, but focusing always on the central question of how a stable international system came into being during the Cold War period. A Constructed Peace will be of interest not just to students of the Cold War, but to people concerned with the problem of war and peace, and in particular with the question of how a stable international order can be constructed, even in our own day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zando
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781400843459
• Artikelnr.: 59606529

Autorenporträt

Marc Trachtenberg is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of History and Strategy (Princeton) and Reparation in World Politics: France and European Economic Diplomacy, 1916-1923.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Abbreviations
Pt. I
The Division of Europe
Ch. 1
A Spheres of Influence Peace?
3
Ch. 2
Toward the Rubicon
34
Ch. 3
The Test of Strength
66
Pt. II
The Nato System
Ch. 4
The Making of the NATO System
95
Ch. 5
Eisenhower and Nuclear Sharing
146
Ch. 6
An Alliance in Disarray
201
Pt. III
The Cold War Peace
Ch. 7
The Politics of the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1960
251
Ch. 8
Kennedy, NATO, and Berlin
283
Ch. 9
A Settlement Takes Shape
352
Sources and Bibliography
403
Index
419