The World the Cold War Made: Order, Chaos and the Return of History

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An examination of the Cold War from the creation and structure of the postwar settlement to the eventual coming apart of the post war order in the 1980s and early 1990s. James Cronin explores the creation and structure of the postwar settlement and the eventual coming apart of the postwar order in the 1980s and early 1990s. Cronin argues that the current state of the world must be understood against the backdrop of the postwar order that until recently governed, prevented or distorted political and economic change. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Preface Introduction: The Cold War As Structure and History 1: The Legacy of Depression and War 2: Nations, Boundaries, and Cold War Realities 3: American Power, American Dreams 4: Economic Miracles, East and West 5: The Cold War and the "Socialist Project" 6: Liberalism Eclipsed: Politics and Economics in the Advanced Industrial Nations, 1968-1989 7: Communism's Endings 8: The World after the Cold War Notes Index