1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War

Edited By Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Craig Daigle Copyright 2014
    464 Pages
    by Routledge

    464 Pages
    by Routledge

    This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging overview of current scholarship on the Cold War, with essays from many leading scholars.

    The field of Cold War history has consistently been one of the most vibrant in the field of international studies. Recent scholarship has added to our understanding of familiar Cold War events, such as the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis and superpower détente, and shed new light on the importance of ideology, race, modernization, and transnational movements.

    The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War draws on the wealth of new Cold War scholarship, bringing together essays on a diverse range of topics such as geopolitics, military power and technology and strategy. The chapters also address the importance of non-state actors, such as scientists, human rights activists and the Catholic Church, and examine the importance of development, foreign aid and overseas assistance.

    The volume is organised into nine parts:

    • Part I: The Early Cold War
    • Part II: Cracks in the Bloc
    • Part III: Decolonization, Imperialism and its Consequences
    • Part IV: The Cold War in the Third World
    • Part V: The Era of Detente
    • Part VI: Human Rights and Non-State Actors
    • Part VII: Nuclear Weapons, Technology and Intelligence
    • Part VIII: Psychological Warfare, Propaganda and Cold War Culture
    • Part IX: The End of the Cold War

    This new Handbook will be of great interest to all students of Cold War history, international history, foreign policy, security studies and IR in general.

    Introduction, Craig Daigle and Artemy M. Kalinovsky  Part I: The Early Cold War  1. Incompatible Universalisms: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Beginning of the Cold War, Mario Del Pero  2. Fear, Want, and the Internationalism of the Early Cold Warm, Amanda Kay McVety  3. The Early Cold War and its Legacies, Vojtech Mastny  Part II: Cracks in the Bloc  4. Polish Communism, the Hungarian Revolution, and the Soviet Union, Anita J. Prazmowska  5. Berlin and the Cold War Struggle over Germany, Hope M. Harrison  6. The Sino-Soviet Split, Lorenz M. Lüthi  Part III: Decolonization, Imperialism and its Consequences  7. Decolonization and the Cold War, Ryan M. Irwin  8. Vietnam and the Global Cold War, Jessica M. Chapman  9. Modernization and Development, Nathan J. Citino  Part IV: The Cold War in the Third World  10. The Cold War in Latin America, Tanya Harmer  11. The Cold War in Africa, Jeffrey James Byrne  12. The Cold War in the Middle East, Paul Thomas Chamberlin  13. The Cold War in South and Central Asia, Artemy M. Kalinovsky  Part V: From Confrontation to Negotiation  14. The Era of Détente, Craig Daigle  15. Zhou Enlai and the Sino-American Rapprochement, 1969-1972, Yafeng Xia  16. The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe: A Reappraisal, Angela Romano  Part VI: Human Rights and Non-State Actors  17. Human Rights and the Cold War, Sarah B. Snyder  18. U.S. Scientists and the Cold War, Paul Rubinson  19. The Catholic Church and the Cold War, Piotr H. Kosicki  Part VII: Nuclear Weapons, Technology, and Intelligence  20. Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War, Ruud van Dijk  21. Technology and the Cold War, Elidor Mëhilli  22. Intelligence and the Cold War, Ben De Jong  Part VIII: Psychological Warfare, Propaganda, and Cold War Culture  23. Propaganda and the Cold War, Nicholas J. Cull and B. Theo Mazumdar  24. Cold War and Film, Andrei Kozovoi  25. Soviet Studies and Cultural Consumption, Sergei I. Zhuk  Part IX: The End of the Cold War  26. Explanations for the End of the Cold War, Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Craig Daigle  27. Humanitarian Aid, Soft Power, and the End of the Cold War in Poland, Gregory F. Domber  28. Neoliberalism, Consumerism and the End of the Cold War, David Priestland

    Biography

    Artemy M. Kalinovsky is Assistant Professor of East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and is author of A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (2011) and co-editor of The End of the Cold War in The Third World (Routledge, 2011). Craig Daigle is Associate Professor of History, The City College of New York, CUNY, and is author of The Limits of Détente: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973 (2012).

    '[C]hapters are informative and offer useful analyses that provide sketches or frameworks for their topics... a worthwhile addition for college and university general or reference collections... Summing Up: Recommended' --L. M. Lees, Old Dominion University, CHOICE Magazine

     

    'A stunningly rich collection of essays that covers the Cold War from every conceivable angle. From film to nuclear weapons, decolonization to human rights, it's all here. The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War is the most useful single volume history available for scholars, students and the general reader. The editors have gathered together an international group of scholars, whose transnational perspectives illuminate the origins and the consequences of this three-quarter of a century struggle which, whatever its name, was never really cold.'Prof. Marilyn Young, New York University, USA