The Last Decade of the Cold War: From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation (repost)
Olav Njolstad "The Last Decade of the Cold War: From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation (Cass Series - Cold War History, 5)"
Frank Cass | 2004-05-18 | ISBN: 0714685399 | 464 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Frank Cass | 2004-05-18 | ISBN: 0714685399 | 464 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The 1980s witnessed one of the most dramatic and far-reaching transformations of world politics in modern times. Not only did the Cold War end with the unexpected collapse of one-party communist rule in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, but the early 1980s was also a period of almost unprecedented rivalry and tension between the two main actors in the East–West conflict, the United States and the Soviet Union. Why and how that conflict first escalated and thereafter, in an amazingly swift process, was reversed and brought to its peaceful conclusion at the end of the decade, is the topic of this volume.