Published in 1999. These essays are not deconstructive in the
postmodern sense. None of the authors have that depth of scepticism
about knowledge claims, but they are all concerned that the terms
of reference of Cold War enquiry have been inappropriately bounded.
The chapters by Murray and Reynolds specifically address the broad
theoretical issues involved with paradigms and explanation. The
chapters by Dobson, Marsh, Malik, Evans and Dix stretch out Cold
War paradigms with successive case studies of Anglo-American
relations; the USA, Britain, Iran and the oil majors; the Gulf
States and the Cold War; South Africa and the Cold War; and Indian
neutralism. All five authors challenge the efficacy of neo-realist
analysis and explanation and critique the way that assumptions
derived from that position have been used in historical
explanation. The chapters by Ryall, Rogers and Bideleux deal with
Roman Catholicism in East Central Europe, with nuclear matters and
with the Soviet perspective. Each work goes beyond the limits of
Cold War paradigms. Finally, Ponting places the Cold War in the
broad context of world history. These essays provide
thought-provoking scholarship which helps us both to nuance our
understanding of the Cold War and to realise that it should not be
taken as an all-embracing paradigm for the explanation of postwar
international relations.
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