Author: Walter W. Hill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 956

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Author: Qiang Zhai
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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In the quarter century after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against two formidable foes, France and the United States. Indeed, the rise and fall of this alliance is one of the most crucial developments in the history of the Cold War in Asia. Drawing on newly released Chinese archival sources, memoirs and diaries, and documentary collections, Qiang Zhai offers the first comprehensive exploration of Beijing's Indochina policy and the historical, domestic, and international contexts within which it developed. In examining China's conduct toward Vietnam, Zhai provides important insights into Mao Zedong's foreign policy and the ideological and geopolitical motives behind it. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he shows, Mao considered the United States the primary threat to the security of the recent Communist victory in China and therefore saw support for Ho Chi Minh as a good way to weaken American influence in Southeast Asia. In the late 1960s and 1970s, however, when Mao perceived a greater threat from the Soviet Union, he began to adjust his policies and encourage the North Vietnamese to accept a peace agreement with the United States.

Author: John Prados
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 159797174X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Examines the debates surrounding the end of the Cold War

Author: Michael J. Hogan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521437318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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This book, first published in 1992, examines the end of the Cold War and the implications for the history and future of the world order.

Author: James Mayall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521226981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Between the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the singing of the Helinski accords in August 1975, major changes occurred in the condition of the East-West conflict and more generally in the structure of great-power relations which had been built up since the end of the Second World War. This collection of documents, which includes the main speeches, treaties and agreements concluded between these two events, has been designed to illustrate the nature of these changes. The volume if prefaced by an analytical essay by the editors, and is subsequently divided into six sections. The first four deal respectively with the final ending of the cold war through the resolution of the problem of the two Germanies; the ending of the Vietnam War and the formal entry of the People's Republic of China into the international system; the diplomacy of detente between the super-powers and in Europe; and changes within the Western Alliance involving both NATO and the EEC, and in the Warsaw Pact.

Author: R. Herrmann
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403982813
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Although in hindsight the end of the Cold War seems almost inevitable, almost no one saw it coming and there is little consensus over why it ended. A popular interpretation is that the Soviet Union was unable to compete in terms of power, especially in the area of high technology. Another interpretation gives primacy to the new ideas Gorbachev brought to the Kremlin and to the importance of leaders and domestic considerations. In this volume, prominent experts on Soviet affairs and the Cold War interrogate these competing interpretations in the context of five 'turning points' in the end of the Cold War process. Relying on new information gathered in oral history interviews and archival research, the authors draw into doubt triumphal interpretations that rely on a single variable like the superior power of the United States and call attention to the importance of how multiple factors combined and were sequenced historically. The volume closes with chapters drawing lessons from the end of the Cold War for both policy making and theory building.

Author: Jack F. Matlock
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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In "Reagan and Gorbachev," Matlock gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended, with humankind declared the winner. The author was Reagan's principal advisor on Soviet and European affairs, and later the United States ambassador to the USSR.

Author: Jeremy Isaacs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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A history of the Cold War ranges from the defeat of Germany at the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall and dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Author: Frédéric Bozo
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857452886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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Exploring the visions of the end of the Cold War that have been put forth since its inception until its actual ending, this volume brings to the fore the reflections, programmes, and strategies that were intended to call into question the bipolar system and replace it with alternative approaches or concepts. These visions were associated not only with prominent individuals, organized groups and civil societies, but were also connected to specific historical processes or events. They ranged from actual, thoroughly conceived programmes, to more blurred, utopian aspirations -- or simply the belief that the Cold War had already, in effect, come to an end. Such visions reveal much about the contexts in which they were developed and shed light on crucial moments and phases of the Cold War.

Author: Melvyn P. Leffler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781316023860
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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