Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev: Revisiting the End of the Cold War (Praeger Security International)

History

SIRACUSA, JOSEPH M.

Burns, Richard Dean

Graebner, Norman A.

Americas

Praeger

This work is a contemporary chronicle of the Cold War and offers an analysis of policy and rhetoric of the United States and Soviet Union during the 1980s. The authors examine the assumptions that drove political decisions and the rhetoric that defined the relationship as the Soviet Union began to implode.
This work demonstrates that while the subsequent unraveling of the Soviet empire was an unintended side effect of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, termination of the Cold War was not. Ronald Reagan deserves full credit for recognizing Gorbachev's sincerity and his determination to change the direction of Soviet policies. For this, Reagan felt the full wrath of anticommunist hawks for doing business with a communist leader. But it was Gorbachev who concluded the superpowers had become mesmerized by ideological myths which ruled out any meaningful discussions of a possible accommodation of political issues for more than four decades. The evidence is compelling that Gorbachev himself broke the Cold War's ideological straight jacket that had paralyzed Moscow and Washington's ability to resolve their differences. Though politically weakened, Gorbachev conceded nothing to U.S. military superiority. Never did he negotiate from a position of weakness. In doing so, the last Soviet leader faced even greater political and physical risk. Without Gorbachev the end of the Cold War could have played out very differently and perhaps with great danger.

The Evolution of Arms Control: From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age is the first world history of arms control through time.• 15 illustrations

The Evolution of Arms Control: From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age (Praeger Security International)

Military

This volume reviews the debates surrounding the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense systems and their deployment by George W. Bush, allowing readers to assess for themselves the significance of Bush's decisions.
 • Photographs of major figures involved with the Bush missile systems and of the missile systems themselves
• A glossary of major technical terms mentioned in the book
• A bibliography covering the history of missile defense issues

The Missile Defense Systems of George W. Bush: A Critical Assessment (Praeger Security International)

Three distinguished diplomatic historians offer an assessment of the Cold War in the realist tradition that focuses on balancing the objectives of foreign policy with the means of accomplishing them.
America and the Cold War, 1941–1991: A Realist Interpretation is a sweeping historical account that focuses on the policy differences at the center of this conflict. In its pages, three preeminent authors offer an examination of contemporary criticism of the Cold War, documenting the views of observers who appreciated that many policies of the period were not only dangerous, but could not resolve the problems they contemplated. 
The study offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.S.-Soviet relations, broadly conceived, from World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It places the origins of the Cold War as related to the contentious issues of World War II and stresses the failure of Washington to understand or seriously seek settlement of those issues. It points out how nuclear weaponry gradually assumed political stature and came to dominate high-level, Soviet-American diplomatic activity, at the same time discounting the notion that the Cold War was a global ideological confrontation for the future of civilization. A concluding chapter draws lessons from the Cold War decades, showing how they apply to dealing with nation-states and terrorist groups today.
 • A bibliography 
• A chronology 
• Photos and illustrations

America and the Cold War, 1941–1991: A Realist Interpretation [2 volumes] (Praeger Security International)

This concise diplomatic history of the Confederation era is the first new work on the topic in a generation. In its pages, three distinguished diplomatic historians offer a realist interpretation of the way in which the Founding Fathers conducted foreign affairs, refreshing our collective memory about their priorities and their values.
 • Two maps relative to the Confederation period
• A bibliography

Foreign Affairs and the Founding Fathers: From Confederation to Constitution, 1776–1787

In the history of the United States, few periods could more justly be regarded as the best and worst of times than the Kennedy-Johnson era. The arrival of John F. Kennedy in the White House in 1961 unleashed an unprecedented wave of hope and optimism in a large segment of the population; a wave that would come crashing down when he was assassinated only a few years later. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, enjoyed less popularity, but he was one of the most experienced and skilled presidents the country had ever seen, and he promised a Great Society to rival Kennedy's New Frontier. Both presidents were dogged by foreign policy disasters: Kennedy by the Bay of Pigs fiasco, although he came out ahead on the Cuban missile crisis, and Johnson from the backlash of the Vietnam War.The 1960s witnessed unprecedented progress toward racial and sexual equality, but it also played host to race and urban riots. And while impressive advances in the sciences and arts were fueling the American imagination, the counterculture rejected it all. The Historical Dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson Era relates these events and provides extensive political, economic, and social background on this era through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, events, institutions, policies, and issues.

Historical Dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson Era (Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras)

Scarecrow Press

In the history of the United States, few periods could more justly be regarded as the best and worst of times than the Kennedy-Johnson era. The arrival of John F. Kennedy in the White House in 1961 unleashed an unprecedented wave of hope and optimism in a large segment of the population; a wave that would come crashing down when he was assassinated only a few years later. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, enjoyed less popularity, but he was one of the most experienced and skilled presidents the country had ever seen, and he promised a Great Society to rival Kennedy's New Frontier. Both presidents were dogged by foreign policy disasters: Kennedy by the Bay of Pigs fiasco, although he came out ahead on the Cuban missile crisis, and Johnson from the backlash of the Vietnam War.The 1960s witnessed unprecedented progress toward racial and sexual equality, but it also played host to race and urban riots. And while impressive advances in the sciences and arts were fueling the American imagination, the counterculture rejected it all. The A to Z of the Kennedy-Johnson Era relates these events and provides extensive political, economic, and social background on this era through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, events, institutions, policies, and issues.

The to Z of the Kennedy-Johnson Era (The A to Z Guide Series)

Arms control and disarmament: A bibliography (The War/peace bibliography series ; #6)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

ABC-CLIO

Lists sources which discuss the history and causes of war in Indochina

The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1945-1982: A Bibliographic Guide (War/Peace Bibliography Series ; #18)

Leitenberg, Milton

Asia

ABC-Clio, Inc.

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Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev: Revisiting the End of the Cold War (Praeger Security International)

Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev: Revisiting the End of the Cold War (Praeger Security International)

The Evolution of Arms Control: From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age (Praeger Security International)

The Missile Defense Systems of George W. Bush: A Critical Assessment (Praeger Security International)

America and the Cold War, 1941–1991: A Realist Interpretation [2 volumes] (Praeger Security International)

Foreign Affairs and the Founding Fathers: From Confederation to Constitution, 1776–1787

Historical Dictionary of the Kennedy-Johnson Era (Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras)

The to Z of the Kennedy-Johnson Era (The A to Z Guide Series)

Arms control and disarmament: A bibliography (The War/peace bibliography series ; #6)

The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1945-1982: A Bibliographic Guide (War/Peace Bibliography Series ; #18)