John Lamberton Harper is Professor of American Foreign Policy and European Studies at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of America and the Reconstruction of Italy (1986), winner of the Marraro prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies, American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson (1994), winner of the Ferrell prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy (2004). He is a contributing editor of Survival, and a member of the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome.

a clearly written, lucid political history of the Cold War

• Introduction ; Documentary Traces ; 1. Russia and the West: Destined to Collide? ; 2. The End of Illusions, 1945-1946 ; 3. The Consolidation of the Blocs, 1947-1949 ; 4. The Globalization and Militarization of the Contest, 1949-1953 ; 5. The Age of Brinkmanship, 1953-1963 ; 6. The Struggle in the Third World, 1950-1968 ; 7. The Rise and Decline of Detente, 1969-1977 ; 8. To the Panic of '79 ; 9. Stirrings of Change, 1980-1985 ; 10. Putting an End to the Cold War, 1986-1990 ; Conclusion ; Endnotes ; Select Bibliography ; Index

John Lamberton Harper is Professor of American Foreign Policy and European Studies at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of America and the Reconstruction of Italy (1986), winner of the Marraro prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies, American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson (1994), winner of the Ferrell prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy (2004). He is a contributing editor of Survival, and a member of the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome.

a clearly written, lucid political history of the Cold War

• Introduction ; Documentary Traces ; 1. Russia and the West: Destined to Collide? ; 2. The End of Illusions, 1945-1946 ; 3. The Consolidation of the Blocs, 1947-1949 ; 4. The Globalization and Militarization of the Contest, 1949-1953 ; 5. The Age of Brinkmanship, 1953-1963 ; 6. The Struggle in the Third World, 1950-1968 ; 7. The Rise and Decline of Detente, 1969-1977 ; 8. To the Panic of '79 ; 9. Stirrings of Change, 1980-1985 ; 10. Putting an End to the Cold War, 1986-1990 ; Conclusion ; Endnotes ; Select Bibliography ; Index

John Lamberton Harper is Professor of American Foreign Policy and European Studies at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of America and the Reconstruction of Italy (1986), winner of the Marraro prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies, American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson (1994), winner of the Ferrell prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy (2004). He is a contributing editor of Survival, and a member of the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome.

a clearly written, lucid political history of the Cold War

• Introduction ; Documentary Traces ; 1. Russia and the West: Destined to Collide? ; 2. The End of Illusions, 1945-1946 ; 3. The Consolidation of the Blocs, 1947-1949 ; 4. The Globalization and Militarization of the Contest, 1949-1953 ; 5. The Age of Brinkmanship, 1953-1963 ; 6. The Struggle in the Third World, 1950-1968 ; 7. The Rise and Decline of Detente, 1969-1977 ; 8. To the Panic of '79 ; 9. Stirrings of Change, 1980-1985 ; 10. Putting an End to the Cold War, 1986-1990 ; Conclusion ; Endnotes ; Select Bibliography ; Index