ABSTRACT
This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Fifty Years' war and the relationship that dominated world politics in the second half of the twentieth century.
For fifty years relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were deciding factors in international affairs. Available for the first time in paperback, Richard Crockatt's acclaimed book is an examination of this relationship in its global context. It breaks new ground in seeking a synthesis of historical narrative and analysis of the global structures within which superpower relations developed. Attention is given to economic as well as political and military factors.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I PERSPECTIVES
part |2 pages
Part II THE EMERGENCE OF A BIPOLAR WORLD, 1941–1953
chapter 4|25 pages
‘TWO WAYS OF LIFE’: THE COLD WAR IN EUROPE, Perspectives on the origins of the cold war
chapter 5|20 pages
COLD WAR: THE FAR EASTERN DIMENSION, Asia and Europe compared
part |2 pages
Part III GLOBALISM AND THE LIMITS OF BIPOLARITY, 1953–1964
part |2 pages
PART IV DÉTENTE AND ITS LIMITS, 1965–1981
part |2 pages
Part V COLD WAR VERSUS INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: THE DENOUEMENT, 1981–1991