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Ending the Cold War

Interpretations, Causation and the Study of International Relations

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  • © 2004

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  1. Richard K. Herrmann
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  2. Richard Ned Lebow
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Part of the book series: New Visions in Security (NVS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. What Was the Cold War? When and Why Did it End?

    1. What Was the Cold War? When and Why Did it End?

      • Richard K. Herrmann, Richard Ned Lebow
      Pages 1-27

  3. Turning Points and Causes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War

      • Archie Brown
      Pages 31-57

    3. Regional Conflicts as Turning Points

      • Richard K. Herrmann
      Pages 59-82

    4. Turning Points in Arms Control

      • Matthew Evangelista
      Pages 83-105

    5. The Emancipation of Eastern Europe

      • Jacques Lévesque
      Pages 107-129

    6. German Unification

      • James W Davis, William C. Wohlforth
      Pages 131-157

  4. Comparing Turning Points and Causes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Leadership and the End of the Cold War

      • George W Breslauer, Richard Ned Lebow
      Pages 161-188

    3. Understanding the End of the Cold War as a Non-Linear Confluence

      • Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein
      Pages 189-217

    4. Learning from the End of the Cold War

      • Richard K. Herrmann
      Pages 219-238

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 239-248
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About this book

Although in hindsight the end of the Cold War seems almost inevitable, almost no one saw it coming and there is little consensus over why it ended. A popular interpretation is that the Soviet Union was unable to compete in terms of power, especially in the area of high technology. Another interpretation gives primacy to the new ideas Gorbachev brought to the Kremlin and to the importance of leaders and domestic considerations. In this volume, prominent experts on Soviet affairs and the Cold War interrogate these competing interpretations in the context of five 'turning points' in the end of the Cold War process. Relying on new information gathered in oral history interviews and archival research, the authors draw into doubt triumphal interpretations that rely on a single variable like the superior power of the United States and call attention to the importance of how multiple factors combined and were sequenced historically. The volume closes with chapters drawing lessons from the end of the Cold War for both policy making and theory building.

Reviews

'Ending the Cold War is the product of a 'Who's Who' of scholars writing on one of the most important periods in recent history. Making good use of new knowledge available from documents and from interviews with key participants, this book will be valuable for scholars and accesible to students.' - James M. Godgeier, George Washington University, USA

'By far the best and most stimulating book to date on the subject, Ending the Cold War will be profitably read by scholars, pollcy makers and sudents of international relations.' - Robert D. English, University of Southern California, USA and author of Russia and the Idea of the West

About the authors

GEORGE W. BRESLAUER University of California, Berkeley, USA ARCIE BROWN St. Antony's College, Oxford, UK JAMES A. DAVIS, University of Munich, Bavaria, Germany MATTHEW EVANGELISTA Cornell University, New York, USA RAYMOND L. GARTHOFF The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA JACQUES LÉVESQUE Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada JANICE GROSS STEIN University of Toronto, Canada WILLIAM H. WOHLFORTH Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA

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