The Long Peace

Inquiries Into the History of the Cold War

By: John Lewis Gaddis

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Paperback | 19 January 1989

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How has it happened that the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get through more than four decades of Cold War confrontation without going to war with one another? Historian John Lewis Gaddis suggests answer to this and other vital questions about post-war diplomacy in this new book. Gaddis uses recently declassified American and British documents to explore several key issues in Cold War history that remain unresolved: Precisely what itwas about the Soviet Union's behaviour after World War II that American leaders found so threatening? Whether the United States really wanted a sphere of influence in post-war Europe? What led the Truman administration first to endorse, but then immediately to avoid American military involvement on the mainland of Asia? This is a provocative exercise in contemporary history, certain to generate new insights on both past and present aspects of the age we live in.

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`However circumscribed the tropics, Gaddis manages to infuse into each one a richness of association, of apposite generalization, which lifts them beyond the level of standart academic treatment. he is revealed above all as a highly rational and liberal-minded observer, a sharp dissector of human folly, who is yet quick to appreciate strengths where they are to be found times higher education-august 1988 'Gaddis writes superbly well, no mean task when mixing narrative, analysis, personal reflection and advocacy ... Gaddis' powers of synthesis are, as ever, most impressive of all.' The Washington Post 'Gaddis raises some interesting and timely questions ... This provocative and well-argued work is recommended' Library Journal

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The Long Peace	p. i
Preface	p. vii
Legacies: Russian-American Relations before the Cold War	p. 3
The Insecurities of Victory: the United States and the Perception of the Soviet Threat after World War II	p. 20
Spheres of Influences: the United States and Europe, 1945-1949	p. 48
Drawing Lines: the Defensive Perimeter Strategy in East Asia, 1947-1951	p. 72
The Origins of Self-Deterrence: the United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons, 1945-1958	p. 104
Dividing Adversaries: the United States and International Communism, 1945-1958	p. 147
Learning to Live with Transparency: the Emergence of a Reconnaissance Satellite Regime	p. 195
The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System	p. 215
Notes	p. 247
Bibliography	p. 303
Index	p. 321
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