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Constructed Peace
Marc Trachtenberg
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Description for Constructed Peace
Paperback. America and Russia were both willing to live with the status quo in Europe. What then could have generated the kind of conflict that might have led to a nuclear holocaust? This book focuses on the central question of how a stable international system came into being during the Cold War period. Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 440 pages, 1 table, 4 maps, 2 line illus., 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; GTJ; HBG; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 27. Weight in Grams: 622.
People still think of the Cold War as a simple two-sided conflict, a kind of gigantic arm wrestle on a global scale," writes Marc Trachtenberg, "but this view fails to grasp the essence of what was really going on." America and Russia were both willing to live with the status quo in Europe. What then could have generated the kind of conflict that might have led to a nuclear holocaust? This is the great puzzle of the Cold War, and in this book, the product of nearly twenty years of work, Trachtenberg tries to solve it. The answer, he says, ... Read more
People still think of the Cold War as a simple two-sided conflict, a kind of gigantic arm wrestle on a global scale," writes Marc Trachtenberg, "but this view fails to grasp the essence of what was really going on." America and Russia were both willing to live with the status quo in Europe. What then could have generated the kind of conflict that might have led to a nuclear holocaust? This is the great puzzle of the Cold War, and in this book, the product of nearly twenty years of work, Trachtenberg tries to solve it. The answer, he says, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691002736
SKU
V9780691002736
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About Marc Trachtenberg
Marc Trachtenberg is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of History and Strategy (Princeton) and Reparation in World Politics: France and European Economic Diplomacy, 1916-1923.
Reviews for Constructed Peace
Winner of the 2000 Paul Birdsall Prize, American Historical Association Winner of the 2000 George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association "An authoritative history of the German Question during the first half of the Cold War... [T]he work's originality, and the way its recaptures how issues were linked in the minds of policymakers, makes it the leading general history of ... Read more