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100 1 $aGaddis, John Lewis.
245 14 $aThe long peace :$binquiries into the history of the cold war /$cJohn Lewis Gaddis.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1987.
300 $aix, 332 pages ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-320) and index.
505 0 $aLegacies: Russian-American Relations Before the Cold War -- The Insecurities of Victory: The United States and the Perception of the Soviet Threat After World War II -- Spheres of Influences: The United States and Europe, 1945-1949 -- Drawing Lines: The Defensive Perimeter Strategy in East Asia, 1947-1951 -- The Origins of Self-Deterrence: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons, 1945-1958 -- Dividing Adversaries: The United States and International Communism, 1945-1958 -- Learning to Live with Transparency: The Emergence of a Reconnaissance Satellite Regime -- The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System.
520 $aHow 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 answers to this and other vital questions about postwar diplomacy in his new book, The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War. Gaddis uses recently-declassified American and British documents to explore several key issues in Cold War history that remain unresolved: Precisely what was it about the Soviet Union's behavior after World War II that American leaders found so threatening? Did the United States really want a sphere of influence in postwar Europe? What led the Truman administration first to endorse, but then immediately to back away from, a strategy designed to avoid American military involvement on the mainland of Asia? Why did the United States not use nuclear weapons during the decade in which it had an effective monopoly over them? Did American leaders really believe in the existence of an international communist "monolith"? How did Russians and Americans fall into the habit of not shooting down each other's reconnaissance satellites? Relating these questions to the current status of Soviet-American relations, Gaddis makes a strong case for the relative stability of the postwar international system, a stability whose components include--and go well beyond --nuclear deterrence. The result is a provocative exercise in contemporary history, certain to generate interest, discussion, and, in the end, important new insights on both past and present aspects of the age in which we live.--Publisher description.
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