Cold War

Review – Spying in South Asia

Dhruv Gadhavi • Jan 27 2025 • Features

By avoiding half-baked narratives and using rich archival research, this book convincingly reveals how Cold War intelligence shaped India’s politics and security.

Great Power Competition in Africa: Toward a New Cold War?

Pádraig Carmody • Jan 23 2025 • Articles

It is likely in a new geopolitical conflict that African actors will seek to leverage competition to balance external powers.

Review – To Run the World

Constantine Pleshakov • Jan 20 2025 • Features

While Radchenko’s examination of Russia’s struggle for recognition is compelling, the juggling of interpretive and narrative histories throughout the book lacks cohesion.

Review – New Cold Wars

Andrew Latham and Logan Leybold • Dec 23 2024 • Features

A vivid analysis of US foreign policy challenges that relies too heavily on Cold War analogies, oversimplifying the complexities of modern geopolitics.

Interview – Mark Hurst

E-International Relations • Aug 17 2022 • Features

Mark Hurst discusses human rights debates during the Cold War and their impact on today’s relations between Russia and the West.

The Cold War

Stephen McGlinchey • Mar 26 2022 • Online resources

The Cold War (1947–91) was known as such because the presence of nuclear weapons made a traditional war between the United States and the Soviet Union unlikely as they each had the power to destroy each other and in doing so jeopardise human civilisation.

Moldova and the Transnistria Conflict: Still a Regional Cold War?

Martin Duffy • Aug 3 2021 • Articles

Transnistria remains a ticking time-bomb severing the mainstream European leanings of Moldova’s majority community from its beleaguered Russians.

Cold War Heritage in Sweden: Pastime Threats, Cosy Cavers and Gendered Nostalgia

Mattias Frihammar • May 15 2021 • Articles

Despite Sweden’s neutrality image, its Cold War period was characterized by a total defence strategy resulting in a deeply militarized society.

Review – Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America’s Alliances

Thomas Zeiler • Feb 7 2021 • Features

In her perceptive look at America’s alliance system since WWII, Rapp-Hooper argues that these defensive security guarantees were remarkably successful in deterring aggression.

Cuban Cold War Internationalism and the Nonaligned Movement

Sarah Clifford and Scott N Romaniuk • Dec 19 2020 • Articles

Although Cuba provided aid to over 20 countries in Africa, their 16 year mission in Angola stood out as proof that in spite of the US, they could still exert their own influence around the world.

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