Beyond the Cold War - Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s (Paperback)

In writing about international affairs in the 1960s, historians have naturally focused on the Cold War. The decade featured perilous confrontations between the United States and the Soviet Union over Berlin and Cuba, the massive buildup of nuclear stockpiles, the escalation of war in Vietnam, and bitter East-West rivalry throughout the developing world. As the world historical force of globalization has quickened and deepened, however, historians have begun to see that many of the global challenges that we face todayinequality, terrorism, demographic instability, energy dependence, epidemic disease, massive increases in trade and monetary flows, to name just a few examples asserted themselves powerfully during the decade. Beyond the Cold War examines how the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson responded to this changing international landscape. To what extent did U.S. leaders understand these changes? How did they prioritize these issues alongside the geostrategic concerns that dominated their daily agendas and the headlines of the day? How successfully did Americans grapple with these long-range problems, with what implications for the future? What lessons lie in the efforts of Johnson and his aides to cope with a new and inchoate agenda of problems? By reconsidering the 1960s, this work suggests a new research agenda predicated on the idea that the Cold War was not the only or perhaps even the most important feature of international life in the postwar period.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time
Release date:	2014
First published:	2014
Editors:	Francis J. Gavin (Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs) • Mark Atwood Lawrence (Associate Professor)
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-979070-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Promotions
LSN:	0-19-979070-1
Barcode:	9780199790708

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