The Last Decade of the Cold War: From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation (Cold War History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714654647 ISBN 13: 9780714654645

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714654647
• ISBN 13: 9780714654645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 460
• Editor: Njolstad Olav