Author: Reynolds SpohrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic book
Languages : en
Pages :
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Transcending the Cold War
Author: Reynolds SpohrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic book
Languages : en
Pages :
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Transcending the Cold War
Author: Kristina SpohrPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191040940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In 1989 and 1990 the map of Europe was redrawn without a war, unlike other great ruptures of the international order such as 1815, 1870, 1918, and 1945. How did this happen? This major multinational study, based on archives from both sides of the 'Iron Curtain', highlights the contribution of international statecraft to the peaceful dissolution of Europe's bipolar order by examining pivotal summit meetings from 1970 to 1990. These are organized into three periods: 'Thawing', 'Living with', and 'Transcending' the Cold War. The volume offers fascinating insights into key statesmen such as Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev, Willy Brandt and Helmut Kohl, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping. It explores the central issues of the superpowers and arms control, their triangular relationship with China, and the seemingly intractable German question. Particular attention is devoted to the cultural dimensions of summitry, as performative acts for the media and as encounters with 'the Other' across ideological divides. All these threads are drawn together in a sweeping analytical conclusion. Written in lively prose, Transcending the Cold War is essential reading for anyone interested not just in modern history but also current international affairs.
Transcending the Cold War
Author: Kristina SpohrPublisher:
ISBN: 9780191793646
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This major multinational study, based on archives from both sides of the 'Iron Curtain', seeks to understand the role played by international summitry in the denouement of the Cold War, examining the thoughts and actions of key leaders and addressing international relations issues that still shape the world today
Transcending the Cold War
Author: Kristina SpohrPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019872750X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In 1989 and 1990 the map of Europe was transformed peacefully, without the wars which caused the other great ruptures of the international order in 1815, 1870, 1918, and 1945. What role did international summitry play in the denouement of the Cold War? Scholars have tended to focus on long-term systemic factors, Gorbachev's reform agenda, or the impact in 1989 of 'people power'. This major multinational study, based on archives from both sides of the 'Iron Curtain', adopts a novel perspective by exploring the contribution of international statecraft to the dissolution of Europe's bipolar order. This is done through the examination of key summit meetings from 1970 to 1990 across three phases - 'Thawing the Cold War', 'Living with the Cold War', and 'Transcending the Cold War' - and in three main strands: the superpowers and arms control, their triangular relationship with China, and the German question. The threads are drawn together in a sweeping analytical conclusion. Transcending the Cold War includes fascinating insights into key statesman such as Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev, Willy Brandt and Helmut Kohl, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping - both as thinkers about the international system and also practitioners of summit bargaining. Particular attention is devoted to the cultural dimension of summitry, as performative acts for the media and as engagement with 'the Other' across ideological divides. Written in lively prose, this volume is essential reading for those interested in modern history, contemporary politics, and international relations - addressing issues that still shape the world today.
Transcending Cold War Liberalism: Class and Power in the Works of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and John Kenneth Galbraith
Author: Lisa M. RoyTranscending the Cold War
Author: Szabolcs LászlóPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cold War
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Throughout the Cold War, scholars and artists from Eastern Europe and from the West brokered official and informal ties between their separate geopolitical “worlds.” Simultaneously they built transnational networks that functioned within the interconnected “worlds” of literature, music, or history writing. In this dissertation, I explore such professional interactions that bridged across the Iron Curtain, like scholarship programs, international conferences, and literary residencies. I ask why states on different sides of the geopolitical struggle made Cold War encounters possible and how the participating individuals experienced them. While I focus on Hungarian-U.S. relations, I offer generalizable insights for East European region and the wider global context. My work questions the historiographic narrative on the division and total competition between “East” and “West.” Through this approach, I join a wave of new research that rejects the idea of the supposed isolation of Soviet bloc countries, aiming to reimagine the Cold War through the lens of transnational history. I show that because the cultural and educational exchanges of the period were created through the meeting of geopolitical and professional aims, connecting the national and the global dimensions, they functioned as transnational projects. I argue that by examining such Cold War encounters from the perspective of Hungarian and U.S. cultural and academic elites – who acted as transnational mediators – the established image of zero-sum geopolitical confrontation needs to be counterbalanced by that of cooperation and mutuality. To demonstrate this, I analyze the entwined and conflicting agendas of authorities, institutions, and intellectuals. I show how governments and their intelligence agencies wanted to instrumentalize scholars and artists for geopolitical purposes – and how these non-state actors used the framework of the Cold War as a tool for professional development and institution-building. Throughout the dissertation, I map scholarly and artistic networks that, although born of a geopolitical conflict and funded with ideological aims, managed to transcend the strict constrains of the Cold War and produce enduring ties and knowledge. By highlighting the experiences and voices of such transnational intermediaries, I strive to return agency to the diverse non-state actors navigating geopolitical pressures, thereby reclaiming their “hearts and minds.”
Transcending Capitalism
Author: Howard BrickPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080145428X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Transcending Capitalism explains why many influential midcentury American social theorists came to believe it was no longer meaningful to describe modern Western society as "capitalist," but instead preferred alternative terms such as "postcapitalist," "postindustrial," or "technological." Considering the discussion today of capitalism and its global triumph, it is important to understand why a prior generation of social theorists imagined the future of advanced societies not in a fixed capitalist form but in some course of development leading beyond capitalism.Howard Brick locates this postcapitalist vision within a long history of social theory and ideology. He challenges the common view that American thought and culture utterly succumbed in the 1940s to a conservative cold war consensus that put aside the reform ideology and social theory of the early twentieth century. Rather, expectations of the shift to a new social economy persisted and cannot be disregarded as one of the elements contributing to the revival of dissenting thought and practice in the 1960s.Rooted in a politics of social liberalism, this vision held influence for roughly a half century, from its interwar origins until the right turn in American political culture during the 1970s and 1980s. In offering a historically based understanding of American postcapitalist thought, Brick also presents some current possibilities for reinvigorating critical social thought that explores transitional developments beyond capitalism.
Cold War Monks
Author: Eugene FordPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300231288
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The groundbreaking account of U.S. clandestine efforts to use Southeast Asian Buddhism to advance Washington’s anticommunist goals during the Cold War How did the U.S. government make use of a “Buddhist policy” in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that the state should not meddle with religion? To answer this question, Eugene Ford delved deep into an unprecedented range of U.S. and Thai sources and conducted numerous oral history interviews with key informants. Ford uncovers a riveting story filled with U.S. national security officials, diplomats, and scholars seeking to understand and build relationships within the Buddhist monasteries of Southeast Asia. This fascinating narrative provides a new look at how the Buddhist leaderships of Thailand and its neighbors became enmeshed in Cold War politics and in the U.S. government’s clandestine efforts to use a predominant religion of Southeast Asia as an instrument of national stability to counter communist revolution.
A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations
Author: Christopher R. W. DietrichPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119459699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1518
Book Description
Covers the entire range of the history of U.S. foreign relations from the colonial period to the beginning of the 21st century. A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations is an authoritative guide to past and present scholarship on the history of American diplomacy and foreign relations from its seventeenth century origins to the modern day. This two-volume reference work presents a collection of historiographical essays by prominent scholars. The essays explore three centuries of America’s global interactions and the ways U.S. foreign policies have been analyzed and interpreted over time. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on the history of U.S. foreign relations; analyze the causes, influences, and consequences of major foreign policy decisions; and address contemporary debates surrounding the practice of American power. The Companion covers a wide variety of methodologies, integrating political, military, economic, social and cultural history to explore the ideas and events that shaped U.S. diplomacy and foreign relations and continue to influence national identity. The essays discuss topics such as the links between U.S. foreign relations and the study of ideology, race, gender, and religion; Native American history, expansion, and imperialism; industrialization and modernization; domestic and international politics; and the United States’ role in decolonization, globalization, and the Cold War. A comprehensive approach to understanding the history, influences, and drivers of U.S. foreign relation, this indispensable resource: Examines significant foreign policy events and their subsequent interpretations Places key figures and policies in their historical, national, and international contexts Provides background on recent and current debates in U.S. foreign policy Explores the historiography and primary sources for each topic Covers the development of diverse themes and methodologies in histories of U.S. foreign policy Offering scholars, teachers, and students unmatched chronological breadth and analytical depth, A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations: Colonial Era to the Present is an important contribution to scholarship on the history of America’s interactions with the world.
Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century
Author: Wolfram KaiserPublisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9462703078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book focuses on the political exile of Catholic Christian Democrats during the global twentieth century, from the end of the First World War to the end of the Cold War. Transcending the common national approach, the present volume puts transnational perspectives at center stage and in doing so aspires to be a genuinely global and longitudinal study. Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century includes chapters on continental European exile in the United Kingdom and North America through 1945; on Spanish exile following the Civil War (1936–39), throughout the Franco dictatorship; on East-Central European exile from the defeat of Nazi Germany and the establishment of Communist rule (1944–48) through the end of the Cold War; and Latin American exile following the 1973 Chilean coup. Encompassing Europe (both East and West), Latin America, and the United States, Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century places the diasporas of twentieth-century Christian Democracy within broader, global debates on political exile and migration.