The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415677017 ISBN 13: 9780415677011

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

This new Handbook offers a wide-ranging overview of current scholarship on the Cold War, with essays from many leading scholars.

The field of Cold War history has consistently been one of the most vibrant in the field of international studies. Recent scholarship has added to our understanding of familiar Cold War events, such as the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis and superpower détente, and shed new light on the importance of ideology, race, modernization, and transnational movements.

The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War draws on the wealth of new Cold War scholarship, bringing together essays on a diverse range of topics such as geopolitics, military power and technology and strategy. The chapters also address the importance of non-state actors, such as scientists, human rights activists and the Catholic Church, and examine the importance of development, foreign aid and overseas assistance.

The volume is organised into nine parts:

• Part I: The Early Cold War
• Part II: Cracks in the Bloc
• Part III: Decolonization, Imperialism and its Consequences
• Part IV: The Cold War in the Third World
• Part V: The Era of Detente
• Part VI: Human Rights and Non-State Actors
• Part VII: Nuclear Weapons, Technology and Intelligence
• Part VIII: Psychological Warfare, Propaganda and Cold War Culture
• Part IX: The End of the Cold War

This new Handbook will be of great interest to all students of Cold War history, international history, foreign policy, security studies and IR in general.

About this title

About the Author:

Artemy M. Kalinovsky is Assistant Professor of East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and is author of A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (2011) and co-editor of The End of the Cold War in The Third World (Routledge, 2011). Craig Daigle is Associate Professor of History, The City College of New York, CUNY, and is author of The Limits of Détente: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973 (2012).

Review:

'[C]hapters are informative and offer useful analyses that provide sketches or frameworks for their topics... a worthwhile addition for college and university general or reference collections... Summing Up: Recommended' --L. M. Lees, Old Dominion University, CHOICE Magazine

 

'A stunningly rich collection of essays that covers the Cold War from every conceivable angle. From film to nuclear weapons, decolonization to human rights, it's all here. The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War is the most useful single volume history available for scholars, students and the general reader. The editors have gathered together an international group of scholars, whose transnational perspectives illuminate the origins and the consequences of this three-quarter of a century struggle which, whatever its name, was never really cold.' – Prof. Marilyn Young, New York University, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0415677017
• ISBN 13: 9780415677011
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 440
• Editor: Kalinovsky Artemy M., Daigle Craig