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Author_William Stueck
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China
China-United States relations
Clement Attlee
Collective security
Cominform
Communist propaganda
Demobilization
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eastern Bloc
Eastern Europe
Embargo
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Foreign policy
Foreign policy of the United States
Gao Gang
German re-armament
Great power
Harry S. Truman
Indochina
International relations
Jawaharlal Nehru
John Foster Dulles
Kaesong
Kim Il-sung
Konrad Adenauer
Korea
Korean conflict
Korean reunification
Korean War
Lavrentiy Beria
Mainland China
Manchuria
Mao Zedong
Marxism-Leninism
Military operation
NATO
Nikita Khrushchev
North Korea
Occupation of Japan
On China
Panmunjom
Paramount leader
Peace treaty
Peng Dehuai
Political status of Taiwan
Prisoner of war
Pyongyang
Repatriation (humans)
Seoul
Sino-Soviet split
South Korea
Southeast Asia
Soviet Empire
Soviet Union
Superiority (short story)
Syngman Rhee
United Nations Security Council
United States
United States Department of State
War
West Germany
Western Europe
World Peace Council
World war
World War II
Yugoslavia
Zhou Enlai
Product details
- ISBN 9780691016245
- Weight: 709g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jul 1997
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This first truly international history of the Korean War argues that by its timing, its course, and its outcome it functioned as a substitute for World War III. Stueck draws on recently available materials from seven countries, plus the archives of the United Nations, presenting a detailed narrative of the diplomacy of the conflict and a broad assessment of its critical role in the Cold War. He emphasizes the contribution of the United Nations, which at several key points in the conflict provided an important institutional framework within which less powerful nations were able to restrain the aggressive tendencies of the United States. In Stueck's view, contributors to the U.N. cause in Korea provided support not out of any abstract commitment to a universal system of collective security but because they saw an opportunity to influence U.S. policy. Chinese intervention in Korea in the fall of 1950 brought with it the threat of world war, but at that time and in other instances prior to the armistice in July 1953, America's NATO allies and Third World neutrals succeeded in curbing American adventurism.
While conceding the tragic and brutal nature of the war, Stueck suggests that it helped to prevent the occurrence of an even more destructive conflict in Europe.
William Stueck is Professor of History at the University of Georgia. Among his works is The Road to Confrontation: American Policy toward China and Korea, 1947-1950.
