A Partial History of the Cold War

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Notes

 [1] For a recent assessment of his work, see Hurst, Cold War US Foreign Policy .

 [2] The White House statement asserted that ‘the great struggles of the twentieth century between liberty and totalitarianism ended with a decisive victory for the forces of freedom – and a single sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy, and free enterprise’. “National Security Strategy,” 1.

 [3] On the centrality of the Third World to the Cold War, see Westad, Global Cold War ; Greiner et al., Heiße Kriege im Kalten Krieg .

 [4] Gaddis devotes little attention to the welfare state and never mentions social democracy.

 [5] Leffler, “American Conception of National Security,” Preponderance of Power , Specter of Communism .

 [6] Matthews, “The Washington Read.”

 [7] See the discussion in Painter, Cold War , 84–85.

 [8] In addition, communism had its greatest successes in countries where it was able to ally closely with nationalism.

 [9] Woodward, “Age of Reinterpretation”; Gourevitch, “Second Image Reversed.”

[10] See Poe, Russia's Moment in World History , and Lieven, Empire .

[11] Borstelmann, Cold War and the Color Line ; Hunt, Ideology and US Foreign Policy .

[12] Herring, “Vietnam War,” 170–71.

[13] For a more balanced assessment of Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War, see Leffler, “Beginning and End.”

[14] See the discussion and citations in Painter and Blanton, “End of the Cold War,” 483–84, 487–88.

[15] See the discussion and citations in Painter and Blanton, “End of the Cold War,” 481–82, 488.

[16] McMahon, “Making Sense of American Foreign Policy.”

[17] Metacritic.com lists 19 reviews; six rate the book outstanding; nine are favorable; two are mixed; and two are unfavorable.