The Journal of Cold War Studies features peer-reviewed articles based on archival research in the former Communist world and in Western countries. Articles in the journal draw on declassified materials and new memoirs to illuminate and raise questions about numerous historical and theoretical concerns: theories of decision-making, deterrence, bureaucratic politics, institutional formation, bargaining, diplomacy, foreign policy conduct, and international relations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
Spies and Boats and Planes: An Examination of U.S. Decision-Making during the Pueblo Hostage Crisis of 1968 David Patrick Houghton Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 4–40.
Office of Strategic Services versus Special Operations Executive: Competition for the Italian Resistance, 1943–1945 Tommaso Piffer Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 41–58.
“Behind Cinerama's Aluminum Curtain”: Cold War Spectacle and Propaganda at the First Damascus International Exposition Kevin W. Martin Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 59–85.
Provoking America: Le Duan and the Origins of the Vietnam War Zachary Shore Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 86–108.
The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War: A Reinterpretation of U.S. Diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific Thomas K. Robb, David James Gill Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 109–157.
Review Essays
The End of the Soviet Union Archie Brown Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 158–165.
Father, Son, and the Bomb Gary Kern Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 166–174.
Book Reviews
David Burke, The Spy Who Came in from the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2008. ix + 209 pp. $34.95 Robert S. Norris Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 175–178.
Kaeten Mistry, The United States, Italy and the Origins of the Cold War: Waging Political Warfare, 1945–1950. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 296 pp. $99.00 Roy Domenico Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 178–179.
Hugh Wilford, America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East. New York: Basic Books, 2013. 299 pp. $29.99 Jeffrey M. Bale Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 179–181.
Andrew Bingham Kennedy, The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru: National Efficacy Beliefs and the Making of Foreign Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 272 pp. $89.00 Nicolas Blarel Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 181–184.
Sean N. Kalic, U.S. Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946–1967. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2012. 182 pp. $40.00 Damon Coletta Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 184–186.
Mattia Toaldo, The Origins of the U.S. War on Terror: Lebanon, Libya and American Intervention in the Middle East. New York: Routledge, 2013. 214 pp. $140.00 Bernhard Blumenau Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 186–188.
Frank Leith Jones, Blowtorch: Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War Strategy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2013. 416 pp. $52.95 Robert B. Rakove Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 188–191.
Marcia Esparza, Henry R. Huttenbach, and Daniel Feierstein, eds., State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: The Cold War Years. New York: Routledge, 2011. 303 pp. $49.95 Christopher Darnton Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 191–193.
Benjamin M. Rowland, ed., Charles De Gaulle's Legacy of Ideas. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011 Edward Kolodziej Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 193–195.
Richard Bidlack and Nikita Lomagin, eds., The Leningrad Blockade, 1941–1944: A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives, trans. of documents by Marian Schwartz. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. xxix + 486 pp. $75.00 Jacob W. Kipp Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 195–197.
Gretchen Heefner, The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 294 pp. Kevin Jon Fernlund Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 197–199.
Hugo Service, Germans to Poles: Communism, Nationalism, and Ethnic Cleansing after the Second World War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ix + 378 pp. $99.00 R. M. Douglas Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 199–201.
Huw Dylan, Defence Intelligence and the Cold War: Britain's Joint Intelligence Bureau 1945–1964. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014. xvi + 240 pp. £60.00 Michael S. Goodman Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 201–203.
Robert H. Ferrell, Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006, paper 2015. 142 pp. $19.95 Alonzo L. Hamby Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 203–204.
Andrew Hoberek, ed., The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 268 pp. Max Holland Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 204–206.
Wilson Miscamble, The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 174 pp. Robert James Maddox Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 206–207.
Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko, The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 232 pp. $27.00 Sean L. Malloy Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 208–210.
Greg Barnhisel, Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 322 pp. $40.00 Stephen J. Whitfield Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 210–212.
David M. Watry, Diplomacy at the Brink: Eisenhower, Churchill and Eden in the Cold War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014. 240 pp. $29.95 Anne Deighton Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 212–214.
Lise Namikas, Battleground Africa: Cold War in the Congo, 1960–1965. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2013. xiv + 352 pp. $60.00 cloth, $29.95 paper Roger E. Kanet Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 214–215.
Hajimu Masuda, Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. 388 pp. $39.95 Allan R. Millett Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 215–217.
Barry Eichengreen, Dwight H. Perkins, and Kwanho Shin, eds., From Miracle to Maturity: The Growth of the Korean Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press for the Harvard Asia Center, 2012. 366 pp. Mark L. Clifford Journal of Cold War Studies Fall 2015, Vol. 17, No. 4: 217–219.