America’s Cold War : : The Politics of Insecurity / / Campbell Craig, Fredrik Logevall.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Craig, Campbell,; Logevall, Fredrik,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)

In a brilliant new interpretation, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall reexamine the successes and failures of America’s Cold War. The United States dealt effectively with the threats of Soviet predominance in Europe and of nuclear war in the early years of the conflict. But by engineering this policy, American leaders successfully paved the way for domestic actors and institutions with a vested interest in the struggle’s continuation. Long after the USSR had been effectively contained, Washington continued to wage a virulent Cold War that entailed a massive arms buildup, wars in Korea and Vietnam, the support of repressive regimes and counterinsurgencies, and a pronounced militarization of American political culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE DEMISE OF FREE SECURITY -- 2 CONFRONTATION -- 3 TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH -- 4 LEANER AND MEANER -- 5 THE NUCLEAR RUBICON -- 6 GULLIVER’S TRAVAILS -- 7 NIXON’S WORLD -- 8 A NEW COLD WAR -- 9 ENDGAME -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX