This book challenges the standard orthodox and neo-revisionist accounts of the origins of the Cold War, which portray the West as containing an expansionist Soviet Union. Initially showing the importance of all three major wartime leaders attached to cooperation in the post-war international order, the book then focuses on imperial rivalries, particularly between Britain and the Soviet Union in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean, but also between the US and the Soviet Union in East AsiaThe book provides a nuanced account, evaluating the responsibilities of the three major Allies for the breakdown of wartime cooperation by covering in detail the issues in Germany, Poland, Romania, Greece, Iran and Egypt. It thereby provides an analysis of specific interests to enable an accurate chronology of leaders' and foreign ministers' conferences. Uniquely, it treats Britain's role as comparatively more important in the alliance's breakdown and the Cold War's origins.
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Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
Publication Date: 01 Aug 2024
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781036405953
About John Kent
John Kent benefited from Scottish higher education at the University of Aberdeen and spent over 25 years working at the London School of Economics which enabled him in addition to doing research at the National Archives in London to conduct research at four Presidential Libraries and the National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland USA and the Library of Congress in Washington DC USA. He was also able to carry out research at les Archives du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères in Paris and les Archives d'Outre-Mer in Aix-en-Provence both in France and the Australian National Archives in Canberra. As a Leverhulme-funded British Documents on the End of Empire Project editor he produced around 1500 pages of documents on Egypt and the defence of the Middle East 1945-1956 and has written three monographs on British American and French foreign policy. He also co-authored International Relations since 1945: A Global History with John Young.