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The World the Cold War Made The World the Cold War Made ORDER, CHAOS, AND THE RETURN OF HISTORY JAMES E. CRONIN ROUTLEDGE New York & London Published in 1996 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, NewYorkNY 10016 Published in Great Britain by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Transferred to Digital Printing 2009 Copyright© 1996 by Routledge All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cronin, James E. The world the Cold War made: order, chaos and the return of history I by James E. Cronin. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-90820-5.-ISBN 0-415-90821-3 (pbk.) 1. Cold War. 2. World politics-1945- I. Title. D843.C688 1996 909.82-dc20 96-1042 CIP Publisher's Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent. To Mary Contents Preface 1x Introduction: The Cold War As Structure and History 1 1 The Legacy of Depression and War 15 2 Nations, Boundaries, and Cold War Realities 33 3 American Power, American Dreams 63 4 Economic Miracles, East and West 87 5 The Cold War and the "Socialist Project" 117 6 Liberalism Eclipsed: Politics and Economics in the Advanced Industrial Nations, 1968-1989 163 7 Communism's Endings 197 8 The World after the Cold War 23 7 Notes 283 Index 325 Preface The Cold War is over. What shall we make of it? The question must be posed with particular urgency at present, for it is essential to have at least a provisional understanding of the world that has recently ended if we are to make any sense at all of the more confusing and possibly more treacherous world bequeathed to us by the passing of the Cold War. Not only is it necessary to begin to summarize and interpret the era of the Cold War; it is now also possible to do so in a new way. So long as the Cold War lasted and engaged our passions and political identities, scholarship suffered. The problem was not a matter of bias so much as the way in which the ongoing character of the phenomenon prevented scholars from stepping back and view ing it broadly. So long as the arms race persisted and the United States and the USSR confronted one another in strategic locations around the world, it was inevitable that the Cold War would be understood pri marily in terms of foreign policy, defense, and war-making, rather than as a world order composed of states whose internal structures were linked to their place in the geopolitical rivalry of the super powers and in which were embedded rival social systems guided and described by contrasting ideologies. The ending of the Cold War, then, offers historians the possibility of studying the phe nomenon anew, of constructing a narrative with a begin- ning and an end and many exciting moments in the mid- dle, and, in the process, the opportunity to grasp its dynamics and consequences.
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