United States, Military, Russia, European, Political Science, National & International Security, International Relations 

Since the cold war ended, our understanding of it both as a historical period and as international system has been transformed by access to new source of materials from both east and west of the former ideological divide. Instead of being a one sided enterprise, in which American sources (and scholars) contributed most of our knowledge, this has now become an international field of study, in which materials from Europe, the former soviet union, and china are as important as American source in forming new approaches and interpretations.
The purpose of this volume is to take stock of where these new materials have taken us in terms of our understanding of what the cold war was about and how we should study it. Seventeen well known scholars of international relations and history provide summaries of how they want to approach the cold war-or aspects of it-as a study field some ten years after the confrontation ended. The contributors, who come from many different academic and national backgrounds, discuss such issues as the origins of the cold war, stages of the conflicts, how the soviet-USA rivalry ended, the nuclear arms race, strategic and ideological aspects, the uses of IR theory in cold war studies, and the emergence of a ‘new cold war history’.
 

Since the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe. This volume takes stock of where these new materials have taken us in our understanding of what the cold war was about and how we should study it. - from Amzon 

Contents
Introduction: Reviewing the Cold War by Odd Arne Westad ....................... P. 1

PART I: STUDYING THE COLD WAR

1. On Starting All Over Again: A Naïve Approach to the study of the Cold War
by John Levis Gaddis ................................................................... P. 27
2. Bringing it Together: The Parts and the Whole by Malvym P. Leffler ........ P. 43
3. How (Not) to Study the Origins of the Cold War by Geir Lundestad ......... P. 64
4. Liberty or Death: The Cold War as US Ideology by Andres Stephanson .... P. 81

PART II: HISTORY AND THEORY
5. Social Science, History and the Cold War: Pushing the Conceptual Envelope
by Richard Ned Lebow ................................................................... p. 103
6. A Certain Idea of Science: How International Relations Theory Avoids Reviewing
the Cold War by William C. Wohlforth ............................................... p. 126

PART III: CULTURES AND IDEOLOGIES
7. Culture, International Relations Theory, and Cold War History by Yale Ferguson and Rey Koslowski ................................................................................ P. 149
8. Formal Ideologies in the Cold War: Toward a Framework for Empirical Analysis by Douglas J. Macdonald ............................................................................ P. 149

PART IV: STRATEGIES AND DECISION MAKING
9. The United States and the Cold War Arms Race by Aaron L. Friedberg ..... P. 207
10. Studying Soviet Strategies and Decision making in the Cold War Years by
Constantine Pleshakov .................................................................. p. 232
11. Germany in the Cold War Strategies and Decisions by Wilfred Loth ......... P. 242
12. China’s Strategies Culture and the Cold Confrontations by
Shu Guang Zhang........................................................................ P. 258

PART V: TURNING POINTS
13. Reflections on the Origins of the cold War by Antonio Varsori ............... P. 281
14. The Crisis Years, 1958 - 1963 by James G. Hershberg ........................ P. 303
15. Ironies and Turning Points: Détente in Perspective by Jussi M. Hanhimaki P. 326
16. Why Did the Cold War End in 1989? Explanations of the Turn
by Vldislav M. Zubok.................................................................... P. 343

Index ……………………………………………………….................................................. P. 369