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Allied-occupied Germany
Armistice
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Authoritarianism
Cambridge University Press
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Chiang Kai-shek
China
China-United States relations
Claremont McKenna College
Communism
Criticism
David I. Steinberg
Dwight D. Eisenhower
East Asia
Eastern Bloc
Ecklund
Embargo
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Foreign policy
Foreign policy of the United States
Fruition
Georgetown University
German re-armament
Great power
H. W. Brands
Harry S. Truman
Ideology
Indochina
Kim Il-sung
Korea
Korea under Japanese rule
Korean Military Advisory Group
Korean People's Army
Korean reunification
Korean War
Koreans
Mainland China
Manchuria
Marshall Plan
Martial law
Military alliance
Military occupation
Military operation
NATO
North Korea
Northeast Asia
NSC-68
On China
Peace treaty
Peng Dehuai
Politburo
Princeton University Press
Provisional government
Pyongyang
Seoul
Sino-Soviet split
South Korea
Soviet Union
Superiority (short story)
Surrender of Japan
Syngman Rhee
Texas A&M University
The New York Times
Totalitarianism
United States Department of State
Unrest
War
War effort
West Germany
Western Europe
World War II
Yonsei University
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- ISBN 9780691118475
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jan 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Fought on what to Westerners was a remote peninsula in northeast Asia, the Korean War was a defining moment of the Cold War. It militarized a conflict that previously had been largely political and economic. And it solidified a series of divisions--of Korea into North and South, of Germany and Europe into East and West, and of China into the mainland and Taiwan--which were to persist for at least two generations. Two of these divisions continue to the present, marking two of the most dangerous political hotspots in the post-Cold War world. The Korean War grew out of the Cold War, it exacerbated the Cold War, and its impact transcended the Cold War. William Stueck presents a fresh analysis of the Korean War's major diplomatic and strategic issues. Drawing on a cache of newly available information from archives in the United States, China, and the former Soviet Union, he provides an interpretive synthesis for scholars and general readers alike. Beginning with the decision to divide Korea in 1945, he analyzes first the origins and then the course of the conflict.
He takes into account the balance between the international and internal factors that led to the war and examines the difficulty in containing and eventually ending the fighting. This discussion covers the progression toward Chinese intervention as well as factors that both prolonged the war and prevented it from expanding beyond Korea. Stueck goes on to address the impact of the war on Korean-American relations and evaluates the performance and durability of an American political culture confronting a challenge from authoritarianism abroad. Stueck's crisp yet in-depth analysis combines insightful treatment of past events with a suggestive appraisal of their significance for present and future.
William Stueck is Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Georgia and the author of several books, including "The Korean War: An International History" (Princeton).
