The Cold War According to John Gaddis

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Notes

 [1] Vojtech Mastny, The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years, 9.

 [2] Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov, Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev.

 [3] Tony Judt, “A Story Still to be Told.” The New York Review of Books, 11–15. See also Edward N. Luttwak, “ We Managed.” Times Literary Supplement, 5–7; Martin Walker, “The Cold War. By John Lewis Gaddis.” International Affairs 82, no. 3 (2006): 595–96.

 [4] Leonid Gibianski, The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe 1945–1989, 26–46.

 [5] John Lewis Gaddis, The Long Peace. Inquiries into the History of the Cold War, 215–45.

 [6] Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War. Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, 396. At this point I should declare that for many years Westad was the Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, which I have been heading since 1990. For even more years I have had the great pleasure of counting Gaddis among my close academic friends.

 [7] Quoted from Christopher Thorne, Allies of a Kind. The United States, Britain, and the War Against Japan, 1941–1945, 515.

 [8] Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days. John F. Kennedy in the White House, 769.

 [9] For two interesting recent books by David F. Schmitz on this topic, see his Thank God They're on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921–1965; and The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1965–1989.

[10] Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente.

[11] For an excellent account of the Helsinki process, see Daniel C. Thomas, The Helsinki Effect: International Norms, Human Rights, and the Demise of Communism.

[12] Geddis, The United States and the End of the Cold War. Implication Reconsiderations, Provocations.

[13] I have presented this viewpoint in some greater detail in my “The European Role at the Beginning and Particularly the End of the Cold War,” 60–79, particularly 68–77.

[14] For Gaddis's celebration of George W. Bush as a strategic thinker on the level of John Quincy Adams and Franklin D. Roosevelt, see his Surprise, Security and the American Experience.