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Out of the Cold: The Cold War and Its Legacy
Author(s): Michael R. Fitzgerald with Allen Packwood (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date: 5 Dec. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1623561434
- ISBN-13: 9781623561437
Book Description
Featuring first hand accounts by international politicians and diplomats along with analyses by leading scholars, this unique collection of essays provides insights from multiple perspectives to foster better understanding of international relations during and after the Cold War. Experts from both sides of the “”iron curtain”” shed light on the origins, struggles, ending, and legacy of the conflict that dominated the second half of the twentieth century and that still affects current East-West relations, the securing and dismantling of weapons of mass destruction, and the instability of many regions. With a particular focus on diplomatic relations, the book looks at the origins of the conflict from Yalta to Korea, the prelude to Détente from Cuba to Vietnam, followed by the move from Détente to dialogue. It then addresses such issues as strategic weapons, the impact of the war on scientific research, intelligence, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lastly, it examines the legacy of the Cold War across regions of the world, including Europe, Japan, India, China, and the lessons to be drawn for today’s diplomatic relations and intelligence. With contributions from Howard Baker, Jr., Sir Anthony Brenton, Susan Eisenhower, Grigoryi Karasin, Alexander Likhotal, Kishan Rana, Ying Rong, and more, the volume presents a truly international treatment of a subject of global dimensions and importance. Students of politics and international relations will find it invaluable as will Foreign Service practitioners, and instructors teaching the Cold War and foreign affairs.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The Cold War has passed into history–but in the pages of Out of the Cold it is vividly brought back to life. Here we can breathe the atmosphere of that era of confrontation, especially through the rival accounts of so many witnesses, on both sides of the conflict, whose first-hand impressions have been recaptured.
This book brings together an impressive array of witnesses, historians and commentators. Casting fascinating light on the origins, course and conclusion of the Cold War, it is both consistently thought-provoking and highly readable.
Timely … [and] enlightening … The writers are more often than not former participants from the conflict: diplomats, soldiers, official translators, the daughter of a US President, an Ambassador to Poland, or a broadcaster for British television. The reader trusts their accounts because they are highly personal and the authors were there in the room: this is no biographical guess or archival reconstruction.
Political Studies Review
About the Author
Michael Fitzgerald is currently Professor of Political Science and former Chair of American Studies at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK). He teaches courses on American national institutions and public policy. From 2006 to 2011, Michael was a Senior Fellow and Director of Governance Studies at the UTK Baker Center for the Study of Public Policy. He has also served as a Visiting Fellow at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies at Vanderbilt University.
Allen Packwood is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge and the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre. He co-curated Churchill and the Great Republic, a Library of Congress exhibition (2004), as well as an exhibition at the Morgan Library. He has written extensively on the life of Winston Churchill.
