Cold War Endgame

William C. Wohlforth is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth. He is the editor of Witnesses to the End of the Cold War (1996) and author of The Elusive Balance: Power and Perceptions During the Cold War (1993).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / William C. WohlforthPart I: Oral History: The Princeton Conference1.Forging a New Relationship2.German Unification3.The Persian Gulf War4.The Collapse of the Soviet UnionPart II: Analysis5.Once Burned, Twice Shy? The Pause of 1989Derek Chollet and James M. Goldgeier6.Trust Busting Out all Over: The Soviet Side of German UnificationAndrew O. BennettPart III: Debates7.Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War: Different Perspectives on the Historical PersonalityVladislav Zubok8.The Road(s) Not Taken: Causality and Contingency in Analysis of the Cold War’s EndRobert D. English9.Economic Constraints and the End of the Cold WarStephen G. Brooks and William C. WohlforthConclusion10.Failure or Learning Opportunity? The End of the Cold War, International Relations Theory, and Lessons for Foreign PolicyJoseph LepgoldList of Participants and ContributorsIndex

“This is a first-rate book for anyone interested in the Cold War and international relations theory. William Wohlforth has done an excellent job of compiling and annotating transcripts from an oral history conference that brought together former Soviet and American officials, and he has carefully integrated the transcripts with substantive chapters by well-regarded authors, making a cohesive whole. The book sheds valuable light not only on the end of the Cold War, but on key theoretical issues in the field of international relations.”—Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Harvard University