The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective.

Warren I. Cohen (Author)

9780521381932, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 September 1993

300 pages, 9 maps
23.7 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.572 kg

"...lucid, balanced and readable....the best available survey of American foreign policy during the postwar period. America in the Age of Soviet Power provides an excellent starting point for exploring the story of postwar foreign policy." Jonathan Rosenberg, Boston Book Review

This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective. All of the major foreign policy issues, including the origins of the Soviet-American conflict; the extension of the confrontation to Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere on the periphery; wars in Korea and Vietnam; crises involving the Taiwan Straits, Berlin, and Cuba; the rise and fall of détente; imperial overreach; and the critical roles of Reagan and Gorbachev in the 1980s are carefully analysed and clearly explained.

Acknowledgments
Prelude
Part I. At War's End: Visions of a New World Order
Part II. Origins of the Cold War
Part III. The Korean War and its Consequences
Part IV. New Leaders and New Arenas in the Cold War
Part V. Crisis Resolution
Part VI. America's Longest War
Part VII. The Rise and Fall of Detente
Part VIII. In God's Country
Conclusion: America and the World, 1945–1991
Bibliographic Essay
Index.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]