Cambridge History Of American Foreign Relations Volume IV: America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991

This is the fourth volume in a set of books about the history of American foreign relations. The volume covers the Cold War era and is based upon the most recent American, Chinese and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective. All of the major foreign policy issues are analyzed and explained, including: the origins of the Soviet-American conflict; the extension of the confrontaiton to Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere on the periphery; wars in Korea and Vietnam; crises involving the Taiwan Straits, Berlin and Cuba; the rise and fall of detente; imperial overreach; and the critical roles of Reagan and Gorbachev in the 1980s.