American Imperatives keyword-peace-process republished for the first time

republished for the first time since 1983

Michael Redgrave

despite innumerable demonstrations of his inability to get a fact or an idea straight

and one whose real significance is still little understood

he will no longer have a homeland

American Imperatives keyword-peace-process republished for the first timeWhat was the cold war? Conventional wisdom makes it coextensive with an epoch stretching from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union, a geopolitical period dominated by the confrontation between the United States and the USSR. In a fundamental challenge to prevailing orthodoxy, Anders Stephanson explodes this misconception, which has misled historians and obscured the US centered nature of the entire process. He argues