Product Description: During the Cold War, Estonia lay behind the Iron Curtain. Even in the grip of Soviet rule, the country underwent many important developments. This volume brings together fourteen papers on the political, economic, and cultural history of Estonia during the Cold War...read more

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Product Description: In this innovative and engaging study, Mire Koikari recasts the US occupation of Okinawa as a startling example of Cold War cultural interaction in which women's grassroots activities involving homes and homemaking played a pivotal role in reshaping the contours of US and Japanese imperialisms...read more

From its inception in 1932, overseas broadcasting by the BBC quickly became an essential adjunct to British diplomatic and foreign policy objectives. For this reason, the World Service was considered the primary means of engaging with attitudes and opinions behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Although funded by government Grant-in-Aid, the Service's editorial independence was enshrined in the BBC's Charter, Licence and Agreement and it is the delicate balance of power that lay in the relations between Whitehall and the World Service during the Cold War as a result that is explored in detail in London Calling.This book also assesses the nature and impact of the World Service's programmes on listeners living in the Eastern bloc countries. In doing so, it traces the evolution of overseas broadcasting from Britain, alongside the political, diplomatic and fiscal challenges that the country faced right up to the Suez crisis and the 1956 Hungarian uprising. These were defining experiences for the United Kingdom's international broadcaster that, as a consequence, helped shape and define the BBC World Service as we know it today. London Calling is an important study for anyone interested in the media and foreign policy histories of Great Britain or the history of the Cold War more generally.

Product Description: A historical account of espionage during the Cold War, including famous spies such as Aldrich Ames, covert missions, and technologies that influenced the course of the conflict.

Product Description: This book examines the transformation in US thinking about the role of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) in national security policy since the end of the Cold War. The evolution of the BMD debate after the Cold War has been complex, complicated and punctuated...read more

Product Description: In 1974, India shocked the world by detonating a nuclear device. In the diplomatic controversy that ensued, the Canadian government expressed outrage that India had extracted plutonium from a Canadian reactor donated only for peaceful purposes...read more

Product Description: Introduction: Soviet European Policy in World War Ii Chapter 1: Soviet Central and Northern European policy: 1945 to the Foundation of Nato in 1949 The Soviet Union and the German Question 1945 to 1949 Austria in the Context of Soviet European Policy (1945 to 1949) The Soviet Union and Scandinavia 1945-1949 Chapter 2: Neutrality and the Consolidation of the Eastern Bloc-The Perpetuation of a Divided Europe: Stalin's European Policy 1949 to 1952-1953 The Foundation of Comecon: Soviet Aims and Strategies Soviet Reactions to the Foundation of Nato Soviet German Policy 1949 to 1951 Neutrality for a Unified Germany? The Soviet Union's Austrian Policy Between 1949 and 1952-1953-Austria as a Factor in the Consolidation of the Eastern Bloc The Ussr and Scandinavia Chapter 3: Neutrality and Soviet Foreign Polic...read more

Product Description: Although the Allies claimed victory at the end of the Second World War, the United States' invention of the atomic bomb and its replication by the Soviet Union posed new dangers for all nations. In Peace Prepared examines what Canada's Cold War Army did to prepare for war against the Warsaw Pact armies - and why and how it did it...read more

Product Description: This book examines competition and collaboration among Western powers, the socialist bloc, and the Third World for control over humanitarian aid programs during the Cold War. Young-sun Hong's analysis reevaluates the established parameters of German history...read more

Product Description: Ronald Reagan's Cold War strategy was well established in his first year in office and did not change throughout his presidency. It was to make absolutely sure in the minds of the Soviets that they too would be destroyed in a nuclear war—even as Reagan sought an alternative through strategic defense to make nuclear missiles obsolete and thus eliminate the possibility of an all-out nuclear war...read more

Product Description: US foreign policy during the Cold War has been analysed from a number of perspectives, generating large bodies of literature attempting to explain its origins, its development and its conclusion. However, there are still many questions left only partially explained...read more