The Last Decade of the Cold War: From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation

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Olav Njølstad
Psychology Press, 2004 - 435 من الصفحات
The 1980s was a period of almost unprecedented rivalry and tension between the two main actors in the East-West conflict, the United States and the Soviet Union. Why and how that conflict first escalated and thereafter, in an amazingly swift process, was reversed and brought to its peaceful conclusion at the end of the decade is the topic of this volume.

With individual contributions by eighteen well-known scholars of international relations and history from various countries, the book addresses the role of the United States, the former Soviet Union, and the countries of western and eastern Europe in that remarkable last decade of the Cold War, and discusses how particular events as well as underlying political, ideological, social, and economic factors may have contributed to the remarkable transformation that took place.
 

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The 1980s Revisited or the Cold War as History Again
3
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29
The European Role at the Beginning and Particularly the
60
Economic Constraints and the Turn towards Superpower
83
Turning Points in Soviet
118
The Sources of New Thinking in Soviet Politics
135
The US Role in Winding Down the Cold War 198090
179
Entering the Second Era of the Cold War
196
Reagans AntiRevolutionary Offensive in the Third World
241
Germany in the Last Decade of the Cold War
265
French Diplomacy and the Last Decade
288
Helping to Open the Door? Britain in the Last Decade of
317
The Deployment
332
NATOs Northern Frontline in the 1980s
360
A View from
372
Index
424

The United States and the Transformation of the Cold War
226

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Olav Njølstad is Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway. He holds a Ph.D. in international history from the University of Oslo (1994), where he also teaches. He has published a number of books and articles on the history of nuclear weapons and atomic energy research, US-Soviet relations in the 1970s, and Norwegian foreign policy.

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