Username:  
Password:  
Customize your search:   [refine search][refine search][refine search]
 
· Type your specific word or phrase in the box above
  and then click Search.
· Put exact phrases in quotation marks. Do not put single
  words in quotation marks.


Look for related topics at questia.com

Book details

The Cold War: An International History, 1947-1991
The Cold War: An International History, 1947-1991
Look inside this book

search in this book
search the library
Discover questia

The Cold War: An International History, 1947-1991

by S. J. Ball. 260 pgs.

Read the complete book The Cold War: An International History, 1947-1991 by becoming a questia.com member. Choose a membership plan to an academic-level library with more than 67,000 full-text books, 1.5 million articles, an entire reference set with a dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus plus a collection of digital tools to organize your information.
 

publication details

Contributors:

   S. J. Ball

Publisher:

   Arnold

Place of Publication:

  London  

Publication Year:

  1998
Subjects:   Cold War, World Politics--1945-, United States--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--United States
Table of contents
Contents
Preface ix
Abbreviations x
1 Introduction 1
Notes 8
2 The Search for Preponderance, 1947-1952 9
The American World View 9
Stalin's World View 11
The Future of Europe 18
The German Question 28
Western Military Power 32
The Chinese Road to the Cold War 35
The Korean Contribution 41
China and Korea 49
The United States and the Far East 52
Notes 59
3 Theories of Victory, 1953-1962 66
The Soviet World View 66
The American World View 74
The Far Eastern Crisis 80
The German Question 89
The Cuban Crisis 98
Notes 107
4 The Balance of Power, 1963-1972 115
The American World View 115
Vietnam and the Cold War 115
Vietnam and Sino-US Rapprochement, 1968-1972 133
The United States and Détente 141
The Soviet Union and Détente 147
The French Defection 151
The German Question 156
Notes 166
5 A System Under Stress, 1973-1984 171
The American World View in the 1970s 171
The Soviet World View in the 1970s 178
The Third World and the New Cold War 182
The Reagan Administration and Strategic Weapons 186
The Soviet Union and Systemic Challenge 190
The End of the Chinese Cold War 198
The German Question 205
Notes 216
6 The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991 221
Gorbachev and the Reagan Administration. 221
Gorbachev and the Bush Administration 226
The German Question 229
Notes 239
7 Conclusion 241
Notes 246
Select Bibliography 248
Index 253
Advanced Search
Customize your search:   [refine search][refine search][refine search]
 
· Type your specific word or phrase in the box above
  and then click Search.
· Put exact phrases in quotation marks. Do not put single
  words in quotation marks.

Questia Books and Articles on Similar Subjects
We found: 107572 results
By media type:
 

Books:

 

63287  

 

Journal articles:

 

15754  

 

Magazine articles:

 

15087  

 

Newspaper articles:

 

13217  

 

Encyclopedia articles:

 

227  

Research Topics on: (Cold War) OR (World Politics 1945 ) OR (United States Foreign Relations Soviet Union) OR (Soviet Union Foreign Relations United States)

 List All Topics    
Cold War Eric Ambler Patriotism in America
 

books on: (Cold War) OR (World Politics 1945 ) OR (United States Foreign Relations Soviet Union) OR (Soviet Union Foreign Relations United States)  - 63287 results

       More book Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>  
 
1.
The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991
Book by Ronald E. Powaski; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Cold War, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union
...9. George Bush and the End of the Cold War, 1989-1991 263 Conclusion...States of the Soviet Union, 1992 289 Preface The Cold War was a struggle for global influence between the United...
2.
China, the United States, and the Soviet Union: Tripolarity and Policy Making in the Cold War
Book by Robert S. Ross; M. E. Sharpe, 1993
Subjects: China--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union, China--Foreign Relations--United States, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--China, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--China, United States--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union
...CHINA William A. Byrd CHINA, THE UNITED STATES, AND THE SOVIET UNION TRIPOLARITY AND POLICY- MAKING IN THE COLD WAR Robert S. Ross, editor AMERICAN STUDIES OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA David Shambaugh, editor Studies on Contemporary...
3.
The United States and the Soviet Union: A Report on the Controlling Factors between the United States and the Soviet Union
Book by Thomas A. Morgan, Curtis Bok; The American Foundation, 1933
Subjects: Propaganda, Russian, Soviet Union--Communism, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--1917-1945, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--United States, Soviet Union--History--Allied Intervention, 1918-1920, United States--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union
...interference by its neighbors, may build up its national industrial organization without reference to immediate danger of war. When they have consolidated their internal situation industrially and otherwise, they will revert to their policy of promoting...
4.
The Strategic Triangle: China, the United States, and the Soviet Union
Book by Ilpyong J. Kim; Paragon Press, 1987
Subjects: China--Foreign Relations--1976-, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--1975-1985, United States--Foreign Relations--1981-, World Politics--1985-1995
...Strategic Arms Limitation Talks SALT , ushered in a new cold war. In contrast to the trends toward detente and a multipolar...difficulties. Triangular Permutations Since World War II, the relationship between China, the United States...
5.
Old Myths and New Realities in United States-Soviet Relations
Book by Donald R. Kelley, Hoyt Purvis; Praeger, 1990
Subjects: Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--1985-1991, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--1989-1993, United States--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union
...joining the economic world order, the possibility...Policy and Strategy 1945-1950 New York...politics. THE COLD WAR AS A "GOOD" THING...termination of the Cold War, and then conclude...CAUSES OF THE Cold War The Cold War...
More book Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top...
 

journal articles on: (Cold War) OR (World Politics 1945 ) OR (United States Foreign Relations Soviet Union) OR (Soviet Union Foreign Relations United States)  - 15754 results

       More journal Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>  
 
1.
United States Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: The Crisis and Renewal of the Republican Empire
Journal article by Jonathan Fox; Journal of Power and Ethics, Vol. 1, 2000
Subjects: Democracy--International aspects, Reagan, Ronald--Military policy, Soviet Union--Military policy, United States--Foreign relations, Utilitarianism--Political aspects
...superpowers and respective client states settled in for a long phony war of high-powered verbal exchanges and nasty armed skirmishes...of the Titanic. So, in retrospect, by the late 1970s, the Cold War was, for at least the two main participants, a relatively...
2.
The United States, the Soviet Union and the Indian Ocean: the Competition for the Third World
Journal article by Rex Wingerter; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 9, 1977
Subjects: Asia
...Christopher S. Wren, "Soviet, Despite Effort to Court Third World, Limits Its Foreign Aid", New York Times , August...George C. Hudson, "Soviet Naval Doctrine and Soviet Politics", World Politics , October 1976. 84 Klare...
3.
Neo-Imperialism and American Foreign Policy: Louis Janowski Criticizes the United States' Foreign Policy Approach and Calls for a Reduction in Its International Commitments
Journal article by Louis Janowski; New Zealand International Review, Vol. 29, 2004
Subjects: Foreign policy--Interpretation and construction, United States foreign relations, United States--Foreign relations
...financial policies rather than political-military objectives at the top of their respective agendas since the end of the Cold War. In view of the changed political-military circumstances, this was rational. It was also rational in view of the lesson...
4.
International Assistance to the Former Soviet Union: Conditions and Transitions [1]
Journal article by Patricia Davis, Peter Dombrowski; Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 28, 2000
Subjects: Economic assistance--Evaluation, Economic development--Evaluation, Former Soviet Union--Foreign relations, Political reform--Evaluation, Russia--Economic aspects, United States--Relations with Soviet Union
...1996). The politics of dual transitions. Comparative Politics, 28(2) 477--492. Farer, T. ed. (1996). Beyond sovereignty...Cooperation and Development. Polak, J. J. (1994). The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund: A changing relationship...
5.
FDR and the Soviet Union: The President's Battles over Foreign Policy
Journal article by David S. Foglesong; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, FDR and the Soviet Union: the President's Battles Over Foreign Policy (Book)--Book reviews
...harshly criticized in recent years by writers who have alleged that his naive policies toward the Soviet Union during World War II facilitated and emboldened Stalinist expansionism. In contrast to those polemical attacks, Mary Glantz argues that FDR...
More journal Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top...
 

magazine articles on: (Cold War) OR (World Politics 1945 ) OR (United States Foreign Relations Soviet Union) OR (Soviet Union Foreign Relations United States)  - 15087 results

       More magazine Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>  
 
1.
Clash of the Titans: Is China More Interested in Money Than Missiles? Will the United States Seek to Contain China as It Once Contained the Soviet Union? Zbigniew Brzezinski and John Mearsheimer Go Head-to-Head on Whether These Two Great Powers Are Destined to Fight It Out
Magazine article by Zbigniew Brzezinski; Foreign Policy, January 2005
Subjects: China--International relations, Chinese foreign relations--Analysis
...Make Money, Not War Today in East Asia...growth. A confrontational foreign policy could disrupt that...going toe-to-toe with the United States. At the strategic level...capable of hitting the United States. Even beyond the realm...
2.
Class Societies: The Soviet Union and the United States. Two Interviews with Paul Sweezy
Magazine article by Kiyoshi Okonogi, Robert Weissman; Monthly Review, Vol. 43, December 1991
Subjects: Socialism, Soviet Union--Economic policy, Sweezy, Paul--Interviews
...controls and thus preparing the way for the mobilization of popular support for the reform project; and (3) calling the Cold War and the arms race by withdrawing support from the satellite regimes in Eastern Europe and complying with American demands...
3.
Soviet Union Proposes Representative International Conference on Cyprus within United Nations Framework
Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 23, April 1986
Subjects: Autonomy--Cyprus, Cyprus--Military aspects, Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes--Cyprus, Soviet Union--Foreign relations, United Nations--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc.
Soviet Union Proposes Representative International Conference on Cyprus within United Nations Framework. The USSR has...island, including the withdrawal of all foreign troops and the elimination of all foreign...all Security Council members. Other States, in particular those from the non-aligned...remain "an independent and autonomous united State with its territorial integrity...
4.
Q: Did the Reagan Doctrine Cause the Fall of the Soviet Union?
Magazine article by Margaret Thatcher, Raymond L. Garthoff; Insight on the News, Vol. 14, January 26, 1998
Subjects: Cold War--History, Reagan, Ronald--Foreign relations, United States--Relations with Soviet Union
...was a patent failure which should be cast onto the trash heap of history. It is, however, for fighting and winning the Cold War that Ronald Reagan deserves the most credit -- and credit not just from Americans but from the rest of what we called in...
5.
The Atomic Bomb, the Cold War, and the Soviet Threat
Magazine article by Alan G. Nasser; Monthly Review, Vol. 41, December 1989
Subjects: Cold War--History, Eastern Europe--International relations, International relations--Analysis, Soviet Union, Soviet foreign relations--United States, United States, United States foreign relations--Soviet Union, Western Europe--International relations
...the cutting edge of U.S. imperialism after the Second World War. As it becomes increasingly difficult to sustain the myth...pressing tasks at this time: to educate about the history of the Cold War, about the history of U.S.-Soviet relations, about the...
More magazine Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top...
 

newspaper articles on: (Cold War) OR (World Politics 1945 ) OR (United States Foreign Relations Soviet Union) OR (Soviet Union Foreign Relations United States)  - 13217 results

       More newspaper Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>  
 
1.
United States of Europe? the EU Wants a Constitution
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 21, 2003
Subjects: European Union
...secession from the Union, including from the states of New England, before the issue burst into full flame with the American Civil War. All of this is frequently overlooked by those who argue if the Americans can do it, so can the Europeans. The French quickly...
2.
U.S. May Have Misjudged Russia; 'Frozen Conflicts' Can Heat Up Quickly in Areas of the Former Soviet Union
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 14, 2008
Subjects: Autonomy, Autonomy (Political science), Peacekeeping forces, Saakashvili, Mikhail
...provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia are among the few places where ethnic, nationalist or other complications mean the Cold War went dormant but didnt die. Within the Soviet Union, Georgia, along with Ukraine and the Baltic republics, posed some of...
3.
Russia's Invasion of Georgia; What Should the United States Do about Moscow's Attack against Its Neighbor?
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 11, 2008
Subjects: Putin, Vladimir, Schumer, Chuck
...perhaps it was time for Russia to re-engage with Cuba. Mr. Putins Bolshevik nostalgia trip notwithstanding, the West won the Cold War and freed CEEs peoples from the Soviet Union. It is, therefore, both strategically injurious and morally repugnant to propose...
4.
It's Time for the United States to Stand Up for UNITA
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 16, 1997
Subjects: Angola, United Nations
...paralleling Libya, North Korea and Iraq. Angola, like Nicaragua and Afghanistan, was the African showcase of Ronald Reagans Cold War policy of supporting freedom fighters in their fight against Soviet-backed regimes. The success of that policy culminated...
5.
Tough Week for the 'Warrior Princess' She Has Been Described as the World's Most Powerful Woman and a Potential Future President of the United States. Rachel Williams and Mo Ilyas Look at the Career of Condoleezza Rice
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 31, 2006
Subjects: Rice, Condoleezza
...stated her desire for - commissioner of the National Football League. She once compared the similarities between football and war - strategy, tactics, offense, defence, new technology - but, more importantly regards it as an American institution that...
More newspaper Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top...
 

encyclopedia articles on: (Cold War) OR (World Politics 1945 ) OR (United States Foreign Relations Soviet Union) OR (Soviet Union Foreign Relations United States)  - 227 results

       More encyclopedia Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>  
 
1.
United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...presented by Europe, prostrated and near starvation after years of war. The Truman Doctrine attempted to thwart Soviet expansion...and thus in diminishing the appeal of Communism. As the cold war intensified, the United States took steps (1948) to nullify...
2.
Communist Party , in the United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...support of the war. Strikes were opposed as a hindrance to the war effort, and in 1944 the U.S. Communist party "disbanded" as...party to become the Communist Political Association. The Cold War In 1945, Browders policy was attacked as being one...
3.
Cold War
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...these nations succeeded in remaining neutral. As the cold-war struggle continued in Southeast Asia, in the Middle East...become increasingly evident. Detente and the End of the Cold War During the late 1950s and early 60s both European alliance...
4.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...environmental matters, and trade. By this time Soviet-U.S. relations were described as having entered an era of detente, and the cold war was said to have ended. In 1973, Brezhnev toured the United States and met with Nixon. A major objective of Soviet foreign...
5.
Union, Labor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...activity. In Germany the printers and cigarmakers unions were started after the uprisings of 1848; German unions until World War I were responsible for much social legislation. In France labor unions were organized in the early part of the 19th cent...
More encyclopedia Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top...
© 2009 - Questia Media America, Inc. All rights reserved. All service marks and trademarks are property of Questia Media and its affiliates. Any advertising or navigational links included on this site are not necessarily endorsed by the publishers or content providers whose materials appear on this site.