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Tag: Cold War

Roundtable 7-7, The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev’s Adaptability, Reagan’s Engagement, and the End of the Cold War

December 5, 2014May 27, 2017 By H-Diplo

Debates over the origins of the Cold War have long been a staple of graduate and undergraduate courses on historiography. Tracing the shifting interpretations of such an important era demonstrates how the writing of history influences and is influenced by the periods in which the history is written. The result has been a familiar tripartite…

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Roundtable 6-9, “Flawed Logics: Strategic Nuclear Arms Control from Truman to Obama”

June 30, 2014September 14, 2017 By James McAllister, Aaron M. Hoffman, Jeffrey W. Knopf, T.V. Paul, James H. Lebovic

Heated debates about the merits of specific arms control agreements were a constant feature of the Cold War. Did the hawks or the doves offer a more compelling and intellectually consistent viewpoint in these debates? In his new book, which should be of great interest to both historians and international relations theorists, James Lebovic argues…

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Roundtable 6-6 on Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958

February 7, 2014September 27, 2015 By H-Diplo

H-Diplo has assembled a very impressive interdisciplinary (and international) lineup for this roundtable; all four reviewers provide, in my opinion, excellent analysis. Each of them finds much to praise about the book under review, in particular Ted Hopf’s fascinating historical account of Soviet political culture during the first thirteen years of the Cold War and…

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Roundtable 4-7 on Coalitions of Convenience: United States Military Interventions After the Cold War

November 16, 2012September 28, 2015 By ISSF editor

Sarah Kreps has made a superb contribution to the burgeoning academic literature on the causes of military intervention. This literature reflects the enormity of the task social scientists face in comprehending world affairs. This enormity stems from the many choices social scientists have to make in order to investigate reality. Unlike physicists, they do not…

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Article Review 16 on “Confronting Soviet Power: U.S. Policy during the Early Cold War.”

October 30, 2012September 28, 2015 By ISSF editor

My old tennis partner, Ernie May, liked to say that political scientists had a habit of making historians feel like waiters at a feast – providing the eternal backdrop for theorists’ experiments.[1] I certainly knew how he felt. I had seen this many, many times. But I certainly don’t have that feeling with the article…

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Roundtable 3-6 on “The CIA and U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1947: Reforms, Reflections and Reappraisals”

December 14, 2011November 20, 2019 By H-Diplo

The special issue of Intelligence and National Security, Volume 26, April-June 2011 continues the process of bringing intelligence in from the cold.  It is to be hoped that the reviews here contribute to the parallel process of familiarizing diplomatic historians with what is known about intelligence and bringing in two fields closer together.  We are…

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Roundtable 2-11 on Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts

June 29, 2011November 20, 2019 By H-Diplo

In Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger, Bruce Kuklick focuses on the role of intellectuals in foreign policy making from the end of World War II through the end of the Vietnam War.  Kuklick concentrated on three overlapping circles of scholars and writers including experts associated with the RAND corporation, a second…

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Roundtable 2-6 on From Hot War to Cold: The U.S. Navy and National Security Affairs, 1945-1955

March 25, 2011September 20, 2015 By H-Diplo

One of the more astonishing facts that demonstrates simultaneously the global requirements of World War Two, the industrial capacity of the United States, and (by comparison) the real impact of the nuclear revolution on great power conflict is the size of the United States Navy in September 1945.  There were twenty-three battleships, twenty-eight aircraft carriers,…

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Roundtable 1-6 on America and the Cold War, 1941-1991: A Realist Interpretation

December 10, 2010September 27, 2015 By H-Diplo

Norman Graebner, Richard Dean Burns, and Joseph M. Siracusa, have written a two volume narrative history of the Cold War. All four reviewers praise it as a lively and factually accurate account that, while breaking no new ground, would make an excellent text in an undergraduate course on the Cold War. Andrew Bacevich speaks for…

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Roundtable 1-3 on The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

November 15, 2010September 14, 2015 By H-Diplo

Nicholas Thompson has taken an imaginative approach to the Cold War by presenting a comparative study of the public careers of Paul Nitze and George Kennan, two significant U.S. officials who participated in the Cold War from its post-WWII origins to its surprising conclusion.  With access to the records of his grandfather, Nitze, and the…

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