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A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963 - Princeton Studies in International History and Politics (Paperback)
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A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963 - Princeton Studies in International History and Politics (Paperback)

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Published: 28/02/1999
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People still think of the Cold War as a simple two-sided conflict, a kind of gigantic arm wrestle on a global scale," writes Marc Trachtenberg, "but this view fails to grasp the essence of what was really going on." America and Russia were both willing to live with the status quo in Europe. What then could have generated the kind of conflict that might have led to a nuclear holocaust? This is the great puzzle of the Cold War, and in this book, the product of nearly twenty years of work, Trachtenberg tries to solve it. The answer, he says, has to do with the German question, especially with the German nuclear question. These issues lay at the heart of the Cold War, and a relatively stable peace took shape only when they were resolved. The book develops this argument by telling a story--a complex story involving many issues of detail, but focusing always on the central question of how a stable international system came into being during the Cold War period.

A Constructed Peace will be of interest not just to students of the Cold War, but to people concerned with the problem of war and peace, and in particular with the question of how a stable international order can be constructed, even in our own day.

Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691002736
Number of pages: 440
Weight: 624 g
Dimensions: 235 x 152 mm


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Winner of the 2000 Paul Birdsall Prize, American Historical Association Winner of the 2000 George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association "An authoritative history of the German Question during the first half of the Cold War... [T]he work's originality, and the way its recaptures how issues were linked in the minds of policymakers, makes it the leading general history of the early Cold War in Europe."--Foreign Affairs "An exhaustive, well-written study of statecraft at the highest levels."--Library Journal

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