The Cambridge History of the Cold War

Melvyn P. Leffler is Edward Stettinius Professor of American History at the Department of History, University of Virginia. His previous publications include To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine (2008, as co-editor), For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (2007, winner of the AHA George Louis Beer Prize) and A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War (1992, winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Robert Ferrell Prize and the Herbert Hoover Book Award). Odd Arne Westad is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His previous publications include The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (2005, winner of the Bancroft Prize, the APSA New Political Science Prize and the Akira Ireye Award), Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946–1950 (2003) and Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945–1963 (1999, as editor).

• 1. Grand strategies in the Cold War John Lewis Gaddis; 2. Identity and the Cold War Robert Jervis; 3. Economic aspects of the Cold War, 1962–1975 Richard N. Cooper; 4. The Cuban Missile Crisis James G. Hershberg; 5. Nuclear competition in an era of stalemate, 1963–1975 William Burr and David Alan Rosenberg; 6. US foreign policy from Kennedy to Johnson Frank Costigliola; 7. Soviet foreign policy, 1962–1975 Svetlana Savranskaya and William Taubman; 8. France, 'Gaullism', and the Cold War Frédéric Bozo; 9. European integration and the Cold War N. Piers Ludlow; 10. Détente in Europe, 1962–1975 Jussi M. Hanhimäki; 11. Eastern Europe: Stalinism to solidarity Anthony Kemp-Welch; 12. The Cold War and the transformation of the Mediterranean, 1960–1975 Ennio Di Nolfo; 13. The Cold War in the Third World, 1963–1975 Michael E. Latham; 14. The Indochina Wars and the Cold War, 1945–1975 Fredrik Logevall; 15. The Cold War in the Middle East: Suez crisis to Camp David Accords Douglas Little; 16. Cuba and the Cold War, 1959–1980 Piero Gleijeses; 17. The Sino-Soviet split Sergey Radchenko; 18. Détente in the Nixon-Ford years, 1969–1976 Robert D. Schulzinger; 19. Nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation during the Cold War Francis J. Gavin; 20. Intelligence in the Cold War Christopher Andrew; 21. Reading, viewing and tuning in to the Cold War Nicholas J. Cull; 22. Counter-cultures: the rebellions against the Cold War order, 1965–1975 Jeremi Suri; 23. The structure of great power politics, 1963–1975 Marc Trachtenberg; 24. The Cold War and the social and economic history of the twentieth century Wilfried Loth.

Review of the set: 'There has never been a Cold War history like it; everything about it is monumental … In total, the volumes represent a successful interconnected attempt at describing the Cold War in full.' Jost Dülffer, H-Soz-u-Kult