Ending the Cold War : interpretations, causation, and the study of international relations / edited by Richard K. Herrmann and Richard Ned Lebow. - 1st ed. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. - viii, 248 p. ; 24 cm. - New visions in security .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What was the Cold War? When and why did it end? / Richard K. Herrmann and Richard Ned Lebow -- Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War / Archie Brown -- Regional conflicts as turning points : the Soviet and American withdrawal from Afghanistan, Angola and Nicaragua / Richard K. Herrmann -- Turning points in arms control / Mattthew Evangelista -- The emancipation of Eastern Europe / Jacques Lévesque -- German unification / James W. Davis and William C. Wohlforth -- Leadership and the end of the Cold War : a counterfactual thought experiment / George W. Breslauer and Richard Ned Lebow -- Understanding the end of the Cold War as a non-linear confluence / Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein -- Learning from the end of the Cold War / Richard K. Herrmann.

9781403963833 (hbk.) 1403963835 (hbk.) 1403963843 (pbk.) 9781403963840 (pbk.)

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Cold War.
World politics--1945-1989.
Disarmament.


United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
Germany--History--Unification, 1990.

D843 / .E485 2004

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