Opening his new book with the drama of people struggling to
survive in rubble-strewn countries after the Second World War,
Thomas G. Paterson follows the lng Cold War crisis through to the
dismantling of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet
Union. He examines features of the international system that
guaranteed conflict: the great-power quest for order by building
spheres of influence; the power, ideology, and strategic-economic
needs of the United States and the Soviet Union that compelled
activist, global foreign policies; and the personalities of key
figures, from Truman to Bush, Stalin to Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
In his exploration of the end of the Cold War, the author
concludes that the two superpowers sought detente because they had
been weakened by the economic costs of the Cold War, challenges
from allies, and the diffusion of power in the international system
after the rise of the Third World. As historical story and
analysis, On Every Front prvides a telling acount of an era - of
the making and unmaking of the Cold War.
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