Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Malcolm Hillgartner] *Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography A New York Times' Notable Book A Financial Times' (London) Best Books of 2011 for History Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind...read more

Product Description: Ensayo de interpretación histórica, donde el especialista en estrategias militares e historia de posguerra, John Lewis Gaddis emplea la información liberada en los años siguientes a la disolución del bloque soviético para ofrecer una nueva visión acerca de la Guerra Fría...read more

Product Description: September 11, 2001, distinguished Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis argues, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American grand strategy. We've been there before, and have responded each time by dramatically expanding our security responsibilities...read more

Evaluates the second half of the twentieth century in light of its first fifty years, chronicling how the world transformed from a dark era of international communism and nuclear weapons to a time of political and economic freedom. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, Gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of George F. Kennan's original strategy of containment, NSC-68, The Eisenhower-Dulles "New Look," the Kennedy-Johnson "flexible response" strategy, the Nixon-Kissinger strategy of détente, and now a comprehensive assessment of how Reagan-- and Gorbachev-- completed the process of containment, thereby bringing the Cold War to an end. He concludes, provocatively, that Reagan more effectively than any other Cold War president drew upon the strengths of both approaches while avoiding their weaknesses. A must-read for anyone interested in Cold War history, grand strategy, and the origins of the post-Cold War world.

An accessible treatment of what history is and what historians do considers historical truth and consciousness, profiling the historical method as a scientific and artistic process while explaining the importance of history and challenging beliefs in social science. (History) (view table of contents)

The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations. For most of the twentieth century, states and international society gave priority to a view of order that focused on the minimum conditions for coexistence in a pluralist, conflictual world. Justice was seen either as secondary or sometimes even as a challenge to order. Recent developments have forced a reassessment of this position.This book sets current concerns within a broad historical and theoretical context; explores the depth and scope of this presumed solidarism amidst the difficulties of acting on the basis of a more strongly articulated liberal position; and underscores the complexity and abiding tensions inherent in the relationship between order and justice. Chapters examine a wide range of state and transnational perspectives on order and justice, including those from China, India, Russia, the United States, and the Islamic world. Other chapters investigate how the order-justice relationship is mediated within major international institutions, including the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and the global financial institutions. (view table of contents)

Examines the history of U.S.-Soviet relations, explains why there has been no warfare between the two super powers, and assesses U.S. policies during the Cold War (view table of contents)

A study of American foreign policy and practices in the forties that focuses on the economic and political developments which forged the way for the Cold War (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this study of the encounter between Vietnam and the United States from 1919 to 1950, Mark Bradley fundamentally reconceptualizes the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam and the place of postcolonial Vietnam in the history of the twentieth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Examines the history of the Cold War, reflecting Soviet, East European, Chinese, American, and West European viewpoints, and offering new insights and solutions to long-standing puzzles

Product Description: The Cold War ended with an exhilarating wave of events: the toppling of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the dissident poet Vaclav Havel, the revolution in Romania. Americans rejoiced at the dramatic conclusion of the long struggle. "But victories in wars--hot or cold--tend to unfocus the mind," writes John Gaddis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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A discussion of United States foreign policy from World War II to the Carter administration is based on recently declassified government documents

A discussion of United States foreign policy from World War II to the Carter administration is based on recently declassified government documents