The Cold War and after : history, theory, and the logic of international politics /
Trachtenberg, Marc, 1946-
The Cold War and after : history, theory, and the logic of international politics / Marc Trachtenberg - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012 - xi, 317 p. ; 24 cm. - Princeton studies in international history and politics .
The question of realism: an historian's view --
The problem of international order and how to think about it --
The United States and Eastern Europe in 1945: a reassessment --
America, Europe, and German rearmament, August-September 1950: a critique of a myth --
The making of the western defense system: France, the United States, and MC 48 --
The structure of great power politics, 1963-75 --
The French factor in U.S. foreign policy during the Nixon-Pompidou period --
Preventive war and U.S. foreign policy --
The Iraq crisis and the future of the western alliance.
What makes for war or for a stable international system? Are there general principles that should govern foreign policy? In The Cold War and After, Marc Trachtenberg, a leading historian of international relations, explores how historical work can throw light on these questions. The essays in this book deal with specific problems--with such matters as nuclear strategy and U.S.-European relations. But Trachtenberg's main goal is to show how in practice a certain type of scholarly work can be done. He demonstrates how, in studying international politics, the conceptual and empirical sides of th
9780691152035 0691152020 0691152039 9780691152028
Guerra fría
Política internacional--1945-1989.
Politica mundial--Filosofía
D 840 / T759c 2012
The Cold War and after : history, theory, and the logic of international politics / Marc Trachtenberg - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012 - xi, 317 p. ; 24 cm. - Princeton studies in international history and politics .
The question of realism: an historian's view --
The problem of international order and how to think about it --
The United States and Eastern Europe in 1945: a reassessment --
America, Europe, and German rearmament, August-September 1950: a critique of a myth --
The making of the western defense system: France, the United States, and MC 48 --
The structure of great power politics, 1963-75 --
The French factor in U.S. foreign policy during the Nixon-Pompidou period --
Preventive war and U.S. foreign policy --
The Iraq crisis and the future of the western alliance.
What makes for war or for a stable international system? Are there general principles that should govern foreign policy? In The Cold War and After, Marc Trachtenberg, a leading historian of international relations, explores how historical work can throw light on these questions. The essays in this book deal with specific problems--with such matters as nuclear strategy and U.S.-European relations. But Trachtenberg's main goal is to show how in practice a certain type of scholarly work can be done. He demonstrates how, in studying international politics, the conceptual and empirical sides of th
9780691152035 0691152020 0691152039 9780691152028
Guerra fría
Política internacional--1945-1989.
Politica mundial--Filosofía
D 840 / T759c 2012