34 essays by a team of leading scholars offering a broad reassessment of the Cold War, calling into question orthodox ways of ordering the chronology of the period and presenting new insights into the global dimension of the conflict.

Series from dust jacket.

1. Introduction /Richard H. Immerman and Petra Goedde -- pt. I. Conceptual frameworks. -- 2. Historicizing the Cold War / Akira Iriye -- 3. Ideology, culture, and the Cold War / Naoko Shibusawa -- 4. Economics and the Cold War / Ian Jackson -- 5. Geopolitics and the Cold War / Geoffrey Warner -- 6. The Cold War and the imperialism of nation-states / Prasenjit Duara -- pt. II. Regional cold wars/cold war crises. -- 7. Soviet-American relations through the Cold War / Vladimir O. Pechatnov -- 8. China and the Cold War / Rana Mitter -- 9. Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1990 / Klaus Larres -- 10. Western Europe / Andreas Etges -- 11. Eastern Europe / Bernd Stöver -- 12. Latin America / Lars Schoultz -- 13. South Asia / Andrew J. Rotter -- 14. The Cold War in Southeast Asia / Ang Cheng Guan -- 15. The Cold War and the Middle East / Salim Yaqub -- 16. Africa / Elizabeth Schmidt -- 17. Japan and the Cold War : an overview / Antony Best -- pt. III. Waging the Cold War. -- 18. Cold War strategies/power and culture -- East : sources of Soviet conduct reconsidered / Vladislav Zubok -- 19. Power and culture in the West / Christopher Endy -- 20. The military / David R. Stone -- 21. The nuclear revolution : a product of the Cold War, or something more? / Campbell Craig -- 22. International institutions / Amy L. Sayward -- 23. Trade, aid, and economic warfare / Robert Mark Spaulding -- 24. Cold War intelligence history / John Prados -- pt. IV. Challenging the Cold War paradigm. -- 25. Internal challenges to the Cold War : oppositional movements East and West / Philipp Gassert -- 26. Locating the transnational in the Cold War / Penny Von Eschen -- 27. Decolonization and the Cold War / Cary Fraser -- 28. Human rights / Barbara Keys and Roland Burke -- 29. Race and the Cold War / Brenda Gayle Plummer -- 30. Gender and women's rights in the Cold War / Helen Laville -- 31. The religious Cold War / Dianne Kirby -- 32. The international environmental movement and the Cold War / Richard P. Tucker -- 33. Globalization and the Cold War / Hyung-Gu Lynn -- pt. V. The end of the Cold War. -- 34. The end of the Cold War / Nicholas Guyatt.