Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The 1980s Revisited or the Cold War as History--Again; 2. The Beginning and the End: Time, Context and the Cold War; 3. The European Role at the Beginning and Particularly the End of the Cold War; 4. Economic Constraints and the Turn Towards Superpower Cooperation in the 1980s; 5. Explaining the End of the Cold War: Turning Points in Soviet Security Policy; 6. The Sources of 'New Thinking' in Soviet Politics; 7. The Messianic Character of 'New Thinking': Why and What For?
8. The US Role in Winding Down the Cold War, 1980-909. The Carter Legacy: Entering the Second Era of the Cold War; 10. The United States and the Transformation of the Cold War; 11. Reagan's Anti-Revolutionary Offensive in the Third World; 12. Germany in the Last Decade of the Cold War; 13. Before the Wall: French Diplomacy and the Last Decade of the Cold War, 1979-89; 14. Helping to Open the Door? Britain in the Last Dec
Summary
The last decade of the Cold War witnessed the transformation of world politics with the collapse of one-party Communist rule in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. This book explains how it happened and why
