Looking for the core of the Cold War, and finding a mirage?^a

¹ I would like to thank Matthew Jones and Andrew Barros for their help.

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Notes

¹ I would like to thank Matthew Jones and Andrew Barros for their help.

² Federico Romero, “Cold War historiography at the crossroads” in “The Cold War in retrospect: 25 years after its end”, ed. Beatrice Heuser, special issue, Cold War History 14, no. 1 (2014): 685–703.

³ Even if the ‘World/Global’ and the longue durée are back. See Samuel Moyn, “Bonfire of the Humanities”, The Nation, 9 February, 2015.

⁴ Mary Kaldor, The Imaginary War. Understanding the East-West Conflict (London: Blackwell, 1991).

⁵ Matthew Evangelista, “Transnational organizations and the Cold War” in Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (eds), The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Vol. 3: Endings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 400–421.

⁶ Masuda Hajimu, Cold War Crucible. The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015).

⁷ Pierre Grosser, “Etat de la littérature: l'histoire des relations internationales aujourd'hui” in Critique internationale, no. 65 (2014), 173–200.

⁸ Kate Brown, “Securing the nuclear nation” in Nationalities Papers 43, no. 1 (2015), 8–26.

⁹ Gregg Herken, The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington (New York: Knopf, 2014). Jana K. Lipman, “A Refugee Camp in America: Fort Chaffee and Vietnamese and Cuban Refugees, 1975–82” in Journal of American Ethnic History 33, no. 2 (2014), 57–87.

¹⁰ Romero, op.cit., 686.

¹¹ Ibid., 587.

¹² Quoted in ibid., 688.

¹³ See the lively debate around Samuel Moyn's book, The Last Utopia.

¹⁴ Akira Iriye, “Historicizing the Cold War” in Richard H. Immerman and Petra Goedde (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). Note that Wilfried Loth's first chapter of Akira Iriye et al. (eds), Global Interdependence. The World since since 1945, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014) is, all in all, a rather conventional piece of history of international relations.

¹⁵ Pierre Grosser, 1989, l'année où le monde a basculé (Paris: Perrin, 2009).

¹⁶ Romero, op.cit., 689.

¹⁷ Ibid., 690.

¹⁸ David S. Foglesong, The American Mission and the ‘Evil Empire’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007); Charles E. Ziegler, “Russian-American relations: from Tsarism to Putin”, International Politics 51, no. 6 (2014), 671–692.

¹⁹ Pierre Grosser, Les temps de la guerre froide. Réflexions sur l'histoire de la guerre froide et les causes de sa fin (Brussels: Complexe, 1995); Pierre Grosser, “1989, le débat continue”, Communisme (2011), 99–101.

²⁰ T.G. Otte, “A Very Internecine Policy: Anglo-Russian Cold Wars before the Cold War” in Christopher Baxter, Michael L. Dockrill and Keith Hamilton (eds) Britain in Global Politics, vol. 1, From Gladstone to Churchill (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013).

²¹ See the works of Paul Schroeder, Marc Trachtenberg, Georges-Henri Soutou and, most recently, Brendan Simms, Europe. The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to Present (New York: Basic Books, 2013).

²² Mario Del Pero, “Incompatible Universalisms: The United States, the Soviet Union and the Beginning of the Cold War” in Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Craig Daigle (eds), The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War (New York: Routledge, 2013), 14.

²³ Wolfgang Mueller, Michael Gehler and Arnold Suppan (eds), The Revolutions of 1989: A Handbook (Vienna: OAV, 2014).

²⁴ David Wolff, “Japan and Stalin's Policy toward Northeast Asia after World War II”, The Journal of Cold War Studies 15, no. 2 (2013), 4–29.

²⁵ Matthew Jones, After Hiroshima. The United States, Race and Nuclear Weapons in Asia, 1945–1965 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

²⁶ Kim Christiaens, Idesbald Godderis and Wouder Goedertier, “Inspirés par le Sud? Les mobilisations transnationales Est-Ouest pendant la guerre froide” in Vingtième Siècle 109 (2011).

²⁷ Marvin Kalb and Deborah Kalb, Haunting Legacy. Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama (Washington DC: Brookings, 2011); Christian G. Appy, American Reckoning. The Vietnam War and Our National Identity (New York: Viking, 2015).

²⁸ Louise P. Woodroofe, Buried in the Sands of Ogaden: The United States, the Horn of Africa and the Demise of Detente (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2012).

²⁹ Pierre Grosser, “La guerre froide, une périodisation impossible?” in Atala, no. 17 (2014).

³⁰ Odd Arne Westad, “Two Finales: How the End of the Third World and the End of the Cold War are Linked” in Geir Lundestad (ed.), International Relations since the End of the Cold War. New and Old Dimensions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

³¹ Pierre Grosser, Traiter avec le diable? L'avenir de la diplomatie au XXIe siècle (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2013).