America's Cold War : the politics of insecurity / Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craig, Campbell, 1964-

Contributor:

Logevall, Fredrik, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War--Influence.

Cold War.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--1989-.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

United States--Politics and government--1989-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a brilliant new interpretation, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall reexamine the successes and failures of America’s Cold War. The United States dealt effectively with the threats of Soviet predominance in Europe and of nuclear war in the early years of the conflict. But by engineering this policy, American leaders successfully paved the way for domestic actors and institutions with a vested interest in the struggle’s continuation. Long after the USSR had been effectively contained, Washington continued to wage a virulent Cold War that entailed a massive arms buildup, wars in Korea and Vietnam, the support of repressive regimes and counterinsurgencies, and a pronounced militarization of American political culture.

Contents:

The demise of free security

Confrontation

To the ends of the earth

Leaner and meaner

The nuclear Rubicon

Gulliver's travails

Nixon's world

A new Cold War

Endgame.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674053670

0674053672

OCLC:

648760636