THE MAKING OF THE SECOND COLD WAR by Fred Halliday ( 9780860918547 )

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Title:

THE MAKING OF THE SECOND COLD WAR

By:

Fred Halliday

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0860918548

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9780860918547

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Publisher:

VERSO BOOKS

Pub. date:

1 June, 1986

Edition:

2nd Revised edition

Pages:

292

Synopsis:

We are living through the Second Cold War, yet what is it? Millions in East and West now fear a nuclear conflict, yet confrontation and panic continue to obscure understanding of the processes that might trigger a hot war. Fred Halliday presents a clearly written anatomy of these international tensions. He identifies the chief cause of cold war as the globalized contest between the USA and USSR and the arms race in which these states are engaged. He then explains the five main elements of the conflict: the relative decline in US nuclear strategic superiority since the 1960s; the new wave of Third World revolutions; the political stalemate of the post-capitalist states; the rise of the New Right in the USA; and the sharpened contradictions between the Western countries themselves."The Making of the Second Cold War"provides a careful, integrated political history of international developments since the 1960s. No other book on the subject has the same range, or attempts to knit together "all"the factors that have produced the contemporary world situation."

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black & white illustrations

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