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1. The End of the Cold War and The Third World

   New Perspectives on Regional Conflict

   Edited by Artemy Kalinovsky, Sergey Radchenko

   Series: Cold War History

   This book brings together recent research on the end of the Cold War in the Third World and engages with ongoing debates about regional conflicts, the role of great powers in the developing world, and the role of international actors in conflict resolution. Most of the recent scholarship on the...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Iran-Iraq War

   New International Perspectives

   Edited by Nigel Ashton, Bryan Gibson

   Series: Cold War History

   This volume offers a wide-ranging examination of the Iran–Iraq War (1980–88), featuring fresh regional and international perspectives derived from recently available new archival material. Three decades ago Iran and Iraq became embroiled in a devastating eight-year war which served to re-define the...

   Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. Macmillan, Khrushchev and the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1960

   By Kitty Newman

   Series: Cold War History

   This new study casts fresh light on the roles of Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev and their efforts to achieve a compromise settlement on the pivotal Berlin Crisis. Drawing on previously unseen documents and secret archive material, Kitty Newman demonstrates how the British Prime Minister...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
4. Economic Statecraft during the Cold War

   European Responses to the US Trade Embargo

   By Frank Cain

   Series: Cold War History

   Discussing a rarely researched aspect of the Cold War, this volume uses new material to examine how the United States trade embargo on the Soviet Union and communist China severed relationships with Europe, particularly focusing on Great Britain. In the late 1940s, the US government stopped nearly...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
5. US Internal Security Assistance to South Vietnam

   Insurgency, Subversion and Public Order

   By William Rosenau

   Series: Cold War History

   This new study of American support to the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam illuminates many contemporary events and foreign policies. During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, the United States used foreign police and paramilitary assistance to combat the spread of communist...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
6. Mao, Stalin and the Korean War

   Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s

   By Shen Zhihua

   Series: Cold War History

   This book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War. This volume is based on a translation of Shen Zihua’s best-selling Chinese-language book, which broke the mainland Chinese taboo on publishing...

   Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
7. Cold War in Southern Africa

   White Power, Black Liberation

   Edited by Sue Onslow

   Series: Cold War History

   This edited volume examines the complexities of the Cold War in Southern Africa and uses a range of archives to develop a more detailed understanding of the impact of the Cold War environment upon the processes of political change. In the aftermath of European decolonization, the struggle between...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
8. Greece and the Cold War

   Front Line State, 1952-1967

   By Evanthis Hatzivassiliou

   Series: Cold War History

   This is the first study to present a comprehensive analysis of Greek foreign and internal policy during the Cold War, covering the key period from the country’s accession to NATO in 1952 until the imposition of the colonels’ dictatorship in 1967. Clearly divided into three parts: 1952-...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
9. Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in the Early Cold War

   Reconciliation, comradeship, confrontation, 1953-1957

   By Svetozar Rajak

   Series: Cold War History

   This book provides a comprehensive insight into one of the key episodes of the Cold War – the process of reconciliation between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. At the time, this process had shocked the World as much as the violent break-up of their relations did in 1948. This book provides an...

   Published September 29th 2010 by Routledge
10. The Crisis of Détente in Europe

    From Helsinki to Gorbachev 1975-1985

    Edited by Leopoldo Nuti

    Series: Cold War History

    This edited volume is the first detailed exploration of the last phase of the Cold War, taking a critical look at the crisis of détente in Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The transition from détente to a new phase of harsh confrontation and severe crises is an interesting, indeed crucial,...

    Published September 29th 2010 by Routledge