Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Cold War
Regular price
€44.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Shahin P. Malik
ANC's Alliance
ANC’s Alliance
Anglo-Iranian oil crisis
Author_Shahin P. Malik
Category=JP
Category=JPWS
Cold War
Cold War Paradigm
CSCE Process
De Klerk
East Central Europe
East West Detente
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
international relations theory
IR Theory
Minuteman III
NATO Area
NATO Nuclear
NATO Nuclear Force
NATO Nuclear Posture
NATO's Southern Flank
NATO’s Southern Flank
neo-realism critique
nuclear diplomacy history
Nuclear Warheads
Nuclear Weapons
Oil Dispute
Oil Settlement
paradigm analysis
Played Back
Post War
postwar global power dynamics
Secretary Of State
Strategic Nuclear
Tactical Nuclear Weapons
United States
Vatican foreign policy
West Germany
Product details
- ISBN 9781138614239
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 152 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Published in 1999. These essays are not deconstructive in the postmodern sense. None of the authors have that depth of scepticism about knowledge claims, but they are all concerned that the terms of reference of Cold War enquiry have been inappropriately bounded. The chapters by Murray and Reynolds specifically address the broad theoretical issues involved with paradigms and explanation. The chapters by Dobson, Marsh, Malik, Evans and Dix stretch out Cold War paradigms with successive case studies of Anglo-American relations; the USA, Britain, Iran and the oil majors; the Gulf States and the Cold War; South Africa and the Cold War; and Indian neutralism. All five authors challenge the efficacy of neo-realist analysis and explanation and critique the way that assumptions derived from that position have been used in historical explanation. The chapters by Ryall, Rogers and Bideleux deal with Roman Catholicism in East Central Europe, with nuclear matters and with the Soviet perspective. Each work goes beyond the limits of Cold War paradigms. Finally, Ponting places the Cold War in the broad context of world history. These essays provide thought-provoking scholarship which helps us both to nuance our understanding of the Cold War and to realise that it should not be taken as an all-embracing paradigm for the explanation of postwar international relations.
Shahin P. Malik, Alan P. Dobson
