This book focuses on the globalisation of the Cold War in the
years 1975-85, highlighting the transformation from bipolar
US-Soviet competition to global confrontation.
Offering a detailed analysis of this fundamental shift that
occurred during this period, as well as the interconnections of
this process with the new industrial-technological revolution, this
book demonstrates how the United States returned to a position of
global economic leadership. In so doing, the book aims to challenge
the traditional and misleading paradigm that interprets the gradual
development of the Cold War in basic bipolar terms; in fact, most
of the factors triggering superpower attitudes and interplay were
linked to a complex web of relations with their allies, as well as
to the political, economic, social, ideological and military
factors structurally intrinsic to the ?peripheral? regions where
the confrontation actually took place.
Many of the essays in this volume focus on the foreign and
security policies of the United States, with the aim of reassessing
the Carter administration as the foundation for Reagan's final
show-down with the Soviet Union. The contributors, however, go
beyond the traditional patterns of foreign policy analysis, giving
due attention to transnational phenomena and institutional
histories that better explain the gradual transformation in the
years that prepared the world for the post-Cold War globalisation
era.
This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War
studies, international history, US foreign policy, European
politics and IR in general.
Max Guderzo is Professor of the History of International
Relations and holds the Jean Monnet Chair of the History of
European Unification at the University of Florence.
Bruna Bagnato is Associate Professor of the History of
International Relations at the University of Florence.
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