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
European Summer School 2016 Best Paper Prize Winner Circle of debt: how the crisis of the Global South in the 1980s affected the socialist East Max Trecker Pages: 1–19 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1621846
Between two Chinas and two Koreas: African agency and non-alignment in 1970s Botswana James Kirby Pages: 21–38 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1632291
‘Now the cry was Communism’: the Cold War and Kenya’s relations with China, 1964–70 Jodie Yuzhou Sun Pages: 39–58 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1602120
‘In my file, I am two different people’: Max Gluckman and A.L. Epstein, the Australian National University, and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, 1958–60 Geoffrey Gray Pages: 59–76 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1575367
‘White on the outside but red on the inside’: Switzerland and Chinese intelligence networks during the Cold War Ariane Knüsel Pages: 77–94 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1575368
Life after the Bomb: Nuclear Fear, Science, and Security Politics in Switzerland in the 1980s Silvia Berger Ziauddin & Sibylle Marti Pages: 95–113 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2018.1536121
Book Reviews
Empire of friends: Soviet power and socialist internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia Rachel Applebaum, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2019, 1–294, x + 275 pp. Molly Pucci Pages: 115–117 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1695796
Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order Hal Brands, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016), 362 pp. Jonny Hall Pages: 118–119 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2020.1700605
When the world seemed new: George H. W. Bush and the end of the Cold War Jeffrey A. Engel, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 608 pp. Liviu Horovitz Pages: 119–121 / DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1695564