As the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, scholars of contemporary international affairs started taking a new look at the basic conflicts that had dominated the latter part of the twentieth century. A plentiful new historical literature on the Cold War era has come into being, greatly helped by the increase in access to archives and other source materials in most countries of the world, from the former Communist states in Europe, to China, to South Africa and elsewhere.
Cold War History is based in the Cold War Studies Programme at LSE IDEAS, the London School of Economics Centre for International Affairs, Strategy and Diplomacy. It makes available the results of recent research on the origins and development of the Cold War and its impact on nations, alliances and regions at various levels of statecraft, as well as in areas such as the military and intelligence, the economy, and social and intellectual developments. The new history of the Cold War is a fascinating example of how experts – often working across national and disciplinary boundaries – are able to use newly available information to refine, or in some cases destroy, old images and interpretations. Cold War History publishes the best of this emerging scholarship, from a perspective that attempts to de-centre the era through paying special attention to the role of Europe and the Third World. The journal welcomes contributions from historians and representatives of other disciplines on all aspects of the global Cold War and its present repercussions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Original Articles
Iraq, the United States, and the long shadow of the Cold War Carl Forsberg Pages: 457–476 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1594784
Diplomacy at the end of empire: evolving French perspectives on Portuguese colonialism in the 1950s and 1960s Melissa K. Byrnes Pages: 477–491 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1597857
The postcolonial cultural transaction: rethinking the Guinea crisis within the French cultural strategy for Africa, 1958–60 / Open Access Frank Gerits Pages: 493–509 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1576170
East-West and West-West competition in the Great Lakes Region, 1975–85 Gaia Lott Pages: 511–528 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2018.1559830
Revisiting the Malayan Emergency: the China factor in the Baling peace talks Yanqing He, Kee Cheok Cheong & Ran Li Pages: 529–547 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2018.1555242
Reassessment of Beijing’s economic and military aid to Hanoi’s War, 1964–75 Shao Xiao & Xiaoming Zhang Pages: 549–567 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1581768
The political economy of Welfare State and the China-Burma relationship Yizheng Zou & Hongwei Fan Pages: 569–585 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1581765
Book Reviews
The age of Eisenhower: America and the world in the 1950s William I. Hitchcock, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018)., 648 pp. Steven Casey Pages: 587–588 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1678816
Enduring alliance: a history of NATO and the postwar global order Timothy Andrews Sayle, (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2019), 346 pp. Linda Risso Pages: 588–589 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1678817
La Guerre Froide de la France, 1941–1990 Georges-Henri Soutou, (Paris: Tallandier, 2018), 592 pp. Garret Martin Pages: 590–592 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1678818
Historiographical Essay
Western journalism in the Soviet bloc during the Cold War: themes, approaches, theses Bent Boel Pages: 593–614 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1670421