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General Reading

D. Reynolds, One World Divisible: a Global History since 1945 (Allen Lane, Penguin Press, London, 2000).
D. Reynolds, From World War to Cold War, (Oxford, OUP, 2006)
Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005)

On theories of the Cold War:
Odd Arne Westad (ed.), Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory (Frank Cass, London, 2000).
Richard N. Lebow and Thomas Risse-Kappen (eds.), International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War (Columbia University Press, New York, 1995).
Allen Hunter (ed.), Rethinking the Cold War (Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1998).
R. Saull, Re-thinking Theory and History in the Cold War: The State, Military Power and Social Revolution, (London, Routledge, 2001)

On general Cold War surveys:
R. E. Powaski, The Cold War: the United States and the Soviet Union, 1917–1991 (Oxford University Press, New York, 1998).
S. J. Ball, The Cold War: an International History 1947–1999 (Arnold, London, 1998).
Walter LaFeber, America, Russia and the Cold War, 1945–2000 (McGraw-Hill, New York, 9th edn., 2002).
J. Gaddis, The Cold War, (London, Allen Lane, 2006).
R. Grogin, Natural Enemies, The United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War: 1917-1991, (Rowman and Littlefield, London, 2000)

On Vietnam:
Robert McMahon (ed.), Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War (D. C. Heath, Lexington, 2nd edn., 1995).
James S. Olson and Randy Roberts, Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam, 1945–95 (St Martin’s Press, New York, 2nd edn., 1996).
Kevin Ruane, War and Revolution in Vietnam, 1930–75 (University College London, London, 1998).
Armaments and Military Strategy:
M. Trachtenberg, History and Strategy (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1991).
J. D. Boutwell (ed.), The Nuclear Confrontation in Europe (Croom Helm, London, 1983).
J. Haslam, The Soviet Union and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons in Europe, 1969–1987 (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1989).
D. Holloway, The Soviet Union and the Arms Race (Yale University Press, New Haven 1984).
D. Johnstone, The Politics of Euro-Missiles (Verso, London, 1984).
Robert Jervis, The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1984).
D. Ford, The Button: the Pentagon’s Strategic Command and Control System (Simon & Schuster, London, 1985).
R. Jervis, ‘The Military History of the Cold War’ Diplomatic History (1990).
J. H. Mueller, ‘The Essential Irrelevance of Nuclear Weapons: Stability in the Postwar World’, International Security (1998).
J. Newhouse, The Nuclear Age: From Hiroshima to Star Wars (Michael Joseph, London, 1989).
M. Trachtenberg, ‘Strategic Thought in America’ Political Science Quarterly (1989).

On the Eastern bloc:
Geoffrey and Nigel Swain, Eastern Europe since 1945 (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2nd edn., 1995).
Z. A. B. Zeman, The Making and Breaking of Communist Europe (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 2nd edn., 1991).

On European integration see:
Martin Dedman, The Origins and Development of the European Union, 1945–95 (Routledge, London, 1996).
Desmond Dinan, Ever Closer Union? An Introduction to European Integration (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1994).
John W. Young, Britain and European Unity, 1945–99 (Macmillan, London, 2000).

On the Middle East and the Arab–Israeli Conflict:
Benny Morris, Righteous Victims: a History of the Zionist-Arab conflict (John Murray, London, 1999).
Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (Allen Lane, London, 2000).
Mark A. Tessler, A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1994).
F. Halliday, The Cold War: Global Conflict, Regional Upheavals, (Cambridge, CUP, 2005).

On the Far East:
John Garner, Foreign Relations of the People’s Republic of China (Englewood Cliffs, 1993).

On Latin America:
Benjamin Keen and Keith Haynes, A History of Latin America (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 6th edn., 2000).
Leslie Bethell (ed.), The Cambridge History of Latin America (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994).
Peter Calvert, The International Politics of Latin America (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1994).
Michael Kryzanek, US-Latin American Relations (Praeger, New York, 1990).
Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: the US in Latin America (Norton, New York, 1993).

On international economic issues:
William Ashworth, a Short History of the World Economy since 1850 (Longman, London, 1991).
D. K. Fieldhouse, The West and the Third World (Blackwell, Oxford, 1999).
James Foreman-Peck, A History of the World Economy (Harvester Wheatsheaf, London, 1995).
Eric Jones, Lionel Frost, and Colin White, Coming Full Circle: an Economic History of the Pacific Rim (Westview Press, Boulder, 1993).

On the end of Empire:
J. Darwin Britain and Decolonisation (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1988).
R. F. Holland, European Decolonization 1918–1981: an Introductory Survey (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1985).
John D. Hargreaves, African Decolonisation (Longman, London, 1996).
British Documents on the End of Empire, Series A, vol. 2: R. Hyam (ed.), The Labour Government and the End of Empire (Stationery Office, London, 1992).
British Documents on the End of Empire, Series B, vol. 1, R. Rathbone (ed.), Ghana (Stationery Office, London, 1992).

On the US and the less developed world:
Peter Hahn and Mary Ann Heiss (eds.), Empire and Revolution: The United States and the Third World since 1945 (Ohio State University Press, Colombus, 2001).
Robert J. McMahon, The Limits of Empire: the US and South-East Asia since World War II (Columbia University Press, New York, 1999).

On US foreign policy:
Stephen Ambrose, Rise to Globalism (Penguin, London, 8th edn., 1998).
John Dumbrell, American Foreign Policy: Carter to Clinton (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1997).
Richard A. Melanson, American Foreign Policy since the Vietnam War (M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, 2nd edn., 1996).
John Spanier and Steve Hook, American Foreign Policy since World War II (Congressional Quarterly, Washington, 1998).

On Soviet foreign policy:
Caroline Kennedy-Pipe, Russia and the World, 1917–91 (Arnold, London, 1998).
Sven Holtsmark, Iver B. Neumann, and Odd Arne Westad (eds.), The Soviet Union and Europe in the Cold War 1945–1989 (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1994).

On American strategy for subversion and intelligence:
Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand Britain America and Cold War Secret Intelligence (John Murray, London, 2001) provides illuminating detail but fails to incorporate into a coherent new analysis.

For the cultural Cold War to which it was linked:
P. Major and R. Mitter, Across the Blocs: Exploring Comparative Cold War and Social and Cultural History, (London, Routledge, 2004)
N. Prevots, Dance for Export: Cultural Diplomacy and the Cold War, (Middeltown, Wesleyan University Press, 2001).
Y. Richmond, Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain, (Penn., Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003).
H. Krabbendam and G. Scott-Smith, The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945-60, (London, Routledge, 2004).

On Japan and the American occupation and reconstruction:
M. Schaller, The American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985).
W. LaFeber, The Clash: A History of US-Japan Relations (W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1997).