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The Long Peace - Gaddis, John Lewis
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Forty years after the start of the Cold War, certain key issues remain unresolved: What precisely about the behavior of the Soviet Union after World War II did the U.S. perceive as a threat? Why did the Truman administration first endorse, then back away from, a strategy designed to avoid American military involvement in mainland Asia? Historian John Lewis Gaddis, one of the leading experts on postwar American foreign policy, explores these and other vital questions about U.S.-Soviet relations. Based on recently declassified American and British documents, his book offers a provocative reassessment of the course and effects of the Cold War.…mehr

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Forty years after the start of the Cold War, certain key issues remain unresolved: What precisely about the behavior of the Soviet Union after World War II did the U.S. perceive as a threat? Why did the Truman administration first endorse, then back away from, a strategy designed to avoid American military involvement in mainland Asia? Historian John Lewis Gaddis, one of the leading experts on postwar American foreign policy, explores these and other vital questions about U.S.-Soviet relations. Based on recently declassified American and British documents, his book offers a provocative reassessment of the course and effects of the Cold War.
Autorenporträt
About the Author John Lewis Gaddis, Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio University, is recognized as one of the leading authorities on United States foreign relations since World War II. The author of The United States and Origins of the Cold War and Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy, he is currently writing the diplomatic history volume in the forthcoming Oxford History of the United States and is working as well on a biography of George F. Kennan.