Raffaele D'Agata is professor of contemporary history at the University of Sassari. He has published books on international twentieth-century history, including Da Monaco a Bretton Woods: l'evoluzione transnazionale degli interessi e degli scopi (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1989) and La nemesi dei prestadenaro : economia mondiale e Guerra fredda, 1944-1948 (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2001). Lawrence Gray is professor of political science and international relations at John Cabot University in Rome. His publications include The Italian Communist Party: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Greenwood Press, 1980), co-edited with Simon Serfaty; Corporate Activities in the Era of Global Economy (Tokyo: Keizai University Press, 1992); and L'America di Roosevelt negli anni dell'esilio di Luigi Sturzo (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2002).

• Part 1 PrefacePart 2 IntroductionPart 3 SECTION 1: WHAT WAS AT STAKE FOR THE "LOSERS"?Chapter 4 Wilfred Loth Soviet Ambivalences, Western OverstatementsChapter 5 Odd Arne Westad Ideas and Power: The Soviet Inner Debate in the 1970sChapter 6 Rodolfo Ragionieri An Actor in Search of a Theory: Explaining Gorbachev's Decision Making in 1989Chapter 7 Panel: On Revisions and ComparisonsPart 8 SECTION II: WHAT STAKES DID THE "WINNERS" GAIN?Chapter 9 Raffaele D'Agata Ostpolitik, Ero-Communism, and Détente: Responding to the World CrisisChapter 10 Lawrence Gray An Uneasy Empire: Myth, Obsession, Identity and American PolicyChapter 11 Gian Paolo Calchi Novati The Defeat of the Third World: The Case of the Horn of AfricaChapter 12 Panel: The Security Issue and the Chances of Western CommunicationPart 13 The Contributors

Raffaele D'Agata is one of Italy's best known historians of the Cold War era.

Raffaele D'Agata is professor of contemporary history at the University of Sassari. He has published books on international twentieth-century history, including Da Monaco a Bretton Woods: l'evoluzione transnazionale degli interessi e degli scopi (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1989) and La nemesi dei prestadenaro : economia mondiale e Guerra fredda, 1944-1948 (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2001). Lawrence Gray is professor of political science and international relations at John Cabot University in Rome. His publications include The Italian Communist Party: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Greenwood Press, 1980), co-edited with Simon Serfaty; Corporate Activities in the Era of Global Economy (Tokyo: Keizai University Press, 1992); and L'America di Roosevelt negli anni dell'esilio di Luigi Sturzo (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2002).

• Part 1 PrefacePart 2 IntroductionPart 3 SECTION 1: WHAT WAS AT STAKE FOR THE "LOSERS"?Chapter 4 Wilfred Loth Soviet Ambivalences, Western OverstatementsChapter 5 Odd Arne Westad Ideas and Power: The Soviet Inner Debate in the 1970sChapter 6 Rodolfo Ragionieri An Actor in Search of a Theory: Explaining Gorbachev's Decision Making in 1989Chapter 7 Panel: On Revisions and ComparisonsPart 8 SECTION II: WHAT STAKES DID THE "WINNERS" GAIN?Chapter 9 Raffaele D'Agata Ostpolitik, Ero-Communism, and Détente: Responding to the World CrisisChapter 10 Lawrence Gray An Uneasy Empire: Myth, Obsession, Identity and American PolicyChapter 11 Gian Paolo Calchi Novati The Defeat of the Third World: The Case of the Horn of AfricaChapter 12 Panel: The Security Issue and the Chances of Western CommunicationPart 13 The Contributors

Raffaele D'Agata is one of Italy's best known historians of the Cold War era.

Raffaele D'Agata is professor of contemporary history at the University of Sassari. He has published books on international twentieth-century history, including Da Monaco a Bretton Woods: l'evoluzione transnazionale degli interessi e degli scopi (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1989) and La nemesi dei prestadenaro : economia mondiale e Guerra fredda, 1944-1948 (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2001). Lawrence Gray is professor of political science and international relations at John Cabot University in Rome. His publications include The Italian Communist Party: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Greenwood Press, 1980), co-edited with Simon Serfaty; Corporate Activities in the Era of Global Economy (Tokyo: Keizai University Press, 1992); and L'America di Roosevelt negli anni dell'esilio di Luigi Sturzo (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2002).

• Part 1 PrefacePart 2 IntroductionPart 3 SECTION 1: WHAT WAS AT STAKE FOR THE "LOSERS"?Chapter 4 Wilfred Loth Soviet Ambivalences, Western OverstatementsChapter 5 Odd Arne Westad Ideas and Power: The Soviet Inner Debate in the 1970sChapter 6 Rodolfo Ragionieri An Actor in Search of a Theory: Explaining Gorbachev's Decision Making in 1989Chapter 7 Panel: On Revisions and ComparisonsPart 8 SECTION II: WHAT STAKES DID THE "WINNERS" GAIN?Chapter 9 Raffaele D'Agata Ostpolitik, Ero-Communism, and Détente: Responding to the World CrisisChapter 10 Lawrence Gray An Uneasy Empire: Myth, Obsession, Identity and American PolicyChapter 11 Gian Paolo Calchi Novati The Defeat of the Third World: The Case of the Horn of AfricaChapter 12 Panel: The Security Issue and the Chances of Western CommunicationPart 13 The Contributors

Raffaele D'Agata is one of Italy's best known historians of the Cold War era.