The End of the Cold War Its Meaning and Implications [Paperback]

This book, first published in 1992, examines the end of the Cold War and the implications for the history and future of the world order.A timely collection of essays considers the origins of the Cold War, its ideological and geopolitical sources, the cost of that epic conflict, its influences on American life and institutions, its winners and losers...A timely collection of essays considers the origins of the Cold War, its ideological and geopolitical sources, the cost of that epic conflict, its influences on American life and institutions, its winners and losers...This timely collection of essays offers one of the first, serious efforts to examine the end of the Cold War. The book presents the thinking of leading historians, political scientists, policy analysts, and commentators from the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Norway and the former Soviet Union. Together they discuss such important issues as the origins of the Cold War, its ideological and geopolitical sources, the cost of that epic conflict, its influence on American life and institutions, its winners and losers.Preface; The authors; 1. Introduction Michael J. Hogan; 2. An end to which Cold War? Walter LaFeber; 3. The Cold War, the Long Peace, and the future John Lewis Gaddis; 4. Quiet cataclysm: some afterthoughts on World War II John Mueller; 5. Some lessons from the Cold War Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr; 6. Nuclear Weapons and European security during the Cold War Samuel F. Wells, Jr; 7. Victory in the postwar era: despite the Cold War or because of it? Alexei Filitov; 8. The wicked witch of the West is gone. Long live the wicked witch of the East Bruce Cumings; 9. The end and the beginning Ronald Steel; 10. A balance sheet: Lippmann, Kennan and the Cold War Richard J. Barnet; 11. Why did the Cold War arise, and why did it end? Raymond L. Garthoff; 12. A view from below Noam Chomsky; 13. The end of the Cold War in the Middle East Nikki R. Keddie; 14. The end of the Cold War in the Near EalÃ