The fifty years war : the United States and the Soviet Union in world politics, 1941-1991

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of figures = xi
• Preface and acknowledgements = xiii
• List of abbreviations = xvii
• Part I Perspectives
• 1 INTRODUCTION: THE FIFTY YEARS WAR = 3
• A question of scale = 4
• The cold war and international politics = 7
• 2 THE AMERICAN AND SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY TRADITIONS = 15
• The United States = 15
• Russia and the Soviet Union = 25
• Part II The emergence of a bipolar world, 1941-1953
• INTRODUCTION = 37
• 3 THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE STRUGGLE FOR PEACE, 1941-1946 = 39
• Globalism and the changing balance of power = 39
• The Grand Alliance and the war in Europe = 42
• The disintegration of the wartime alliance = 46
• 1946: Domestic politics and international conflict = 58
• 4 'TWO WAYS OF LIFE': THE COLD WAR IN EUROPE, 1947-1953 = 64
• Perspectives on the origins of the cold war = 64
• Containment and the Truman Doctrine = 72
• The Marshall Plan, Germany, and the division of Europe, 1947-1949 = 76
• NATO, NSC 68 and the militarization of containment = 80
• Stalinism and the cold war at home and abroad, 1947-1953 = 84
• Conclusion = 87
• 5 COLD WAR: THE FAR EASTERN DIMENSION, 1945-1953 = 89
• Asia and Europe compared = 89
• Defining superpower interests in Asia = 91
• McCarthyism and the Far Eastern turn in American policy = 93
• China and the ferment in Asia, 1945-1950 = 95
• The American occupation of Japan = 99
• The Korean War = 100
• Conclusion = 107
• Part III Globalism and the limits of bipolarity, 1953-1964
• INTRODUCTION = 111
• 6 PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE AND IRRECONCILABLE CONFLICT, 1953-1964 = 114
• The economics of superpower status = 114
• De-Stalinization and international communism, 1953-1964 = 117
• The Eisenhower administration and the new Soviet leadership = 123
• Towards the Geneva summit = 125
• The Geneva summit = 127
• Crisis and its meaning, 1956-1961 = 129
• Kennedy and Khrushchev = 131
• 7 THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE, 1945-1963 = 138
• Introduction = 138
• American nuclear strategy = 141
• Soviet nuclear strategy = 149
• Disarmament or arms control? = 152
• The Cuban missile crisis = 158
• 8 THE UNITED STATES, THE SOVIET UNION AND THE THIRD WORLD, 1953-1963 = 167
• Patterns of dependence and independence = 167
• The superpowers and the Third World: basic assumptions = 173
• The Middle East: Iran, Suez, and Lebanon = 176
• Southeast Asia = 183
• Latin America: Guatemala and Cuba = 189
• Africa: the Congo = 197
• Conclusion = 199
• Part IV Detente and its limits, 1965-1981
• INTRODUCTION = 203
• 9 D$$\acute E$$TENTE IN THE MAKING, 1965-1973 = 207
• The international environment = 207
• The domestic dimensions of d$$\acute e$$tente = 216
• D$$\acute e$$tente: the theory = 219
• D$$\acute e$$tente: the practice = 224
• Conclusion = 234
• 10 THE VIETNAM WAR AND THE SUPERPOWER TRIANGLE = 235
• Introduction = 235
• Vietnam and the American national interest = 236
• North Vietnam and Sino-Soviet conflict = 245
• The American opening to China = 246
• Vietnam: the costs of victory = 250
• 11 D$$\acute E$$TENTE UNDER PRESSURE, 1973-1981 = 253
• Introduction = 253
• The United States: a nation in irons? = 254
• The Soviet Union: a nation unchained? = 257
• Arms control and the strategic nuclear debate, 1974-1981 = 260
• European dilemmas: West and East = 268
• Irrepressible conflict: the Third World = 279
• Conclusion = 298
• Part V Cold war versus international politics: the denouement, 1981-1991
• INTRODUCTION = 301
• 12 REAGANISM AND THE SPECTRE OF COMMUNISM = 505
• Transitions of power = 305
• The economics of superpower status revisited = 310
• Arms and the man = 315
• The troubled Western Alliance = 324
• The superpowers, The Middle East, and Central America = 331
• Conclusion = 337
• 13 GORBACHEV AND THE NEW WORLD DISORDER, 1985-1991 = 338
• Introduction = 338
• The Soviet Union and the collapse of communism = 340
• Eastern Europe in revolution = 350
• The United States, the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War = 356
• The end of the cold war and the wider world = 366
• 14 CONCLUSION = 369
• The issue of stability = 369
• The shape of things to come = 371
• Notes = 379
• Bibliographical note = 381
• Bibliography = 384
• Index = 399