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Waging the Cold War
This chapter assesses the nature of Cold War rivalry by looking at facets of competition, particularly relating to the military. It focuses on the...
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Cold War Social Science Transnational Entanglements
This book explores how the social sciences became entangled with the global Cold War. While duly recognizing the realities of nation states, national...
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Introduction: Cold War Social Science, Transnational Entanglements
As a global phenomenon, the Cold War had a profound influence on international relations, society, culture, and the sciences, including the social...
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Studying the Cold War: Core Themes and Concepts—Is There a New International History of the Cold War?
This chapter provides an overview of the development of the academic study and historiography of the Cold War. The first part assesses developments...
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The Cold War and the Third World: Latin America
Recent Cold War scholarship has seen a shift in the analytical paradigm from the centre to the periphery, emphasising how North/South dynamics...
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Latin America’s Dependency Theory: A Counter–Cold War Social Science?
This chapter examines how Latin American dependency theory became a global counter–Cold War social science. To do so, it focuses on a transnational...
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The End of European History? The European People’s Party and the Transformation of Europe from Cold War to Post-Cold War
This chapter argues that the European People’s Party (EPP) significantly influenced the transformation of Europe from the Cold War to post-Cold War...
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Beyond Geopolitics: Economics, Culture and the Transnational Cold War
This chapter focuses on the Cold War’s intangible (or ‘soft power’) aspects. First, discussion centres on economic competition in trade, agricultural...
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Embracing Mystery: Radiation Risks and Popular Science Writing in the Early Cold War
Narrative form is crucial to the understanding of science in popular culture. This is particularly true with subjects such as radiation, in which the...
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Decentering Cold War Social Science: Alva Myrdal’s Social Scientific Internationalism at UNESCO, 1950–1955
Set up in 1946, UNESCO’s Department of Social Sciences (DSS) quickly became one of the key promoters of international social science during the early...
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The Cold War and Regions of Memory
One of the most striking features of the Cold War is the simultaneous growth and unevenness of its remembering. While a handful of museums and...
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Embracing Mystery: Radiation Risks and Popular Science Writing in the Early Cold War
Narrative form is crucial to the understanding of science in popular culture. This is particularly true with subjects such as radiation, in which the...
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The Superpowers and the End of the Cold War
This chapter begins by introducing the historiographical discourse on the Cold War’s end, before examining the role of the superpowers and assessing...
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On Utopia and Melancholy: Liberalism and Socialism at the End of the Cold War
In the aftermath of the Cold War, a strange melancholy hovered around the West. Both liberals and socialists expressed their discontent about the...
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Cold War Cultures
The Cold War confrontation and the threat of nuclear devastation had a profound effect on many aspects of life, even in matters as basic as sexuality...
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Radiation Risk in Cold War Mexico: Local and Global Networks
After WWII, global concerns about the uses of nuclear energy and radiation sources in agriculture, medicine, and industry brought about calls for...
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Cold War Social Sciences beyond Academia? Radio Free Europe and the Transnational Circulation of Cold War Knowledge during the “CIA Years,” 1950–1971
This chapter explores how and why Radio Free Europe (RFE), often thought of as a “propaganda” radio institution in the Cold War, became a significant...
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Cold War – But No War – in Space
Space war has been a fixture of astroculture since the blossoming of science fiction in the late nineteenth century. Yet in the more than seventy...
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The Food Crisis in the New Cold War Era and Korea’s Response
The world food situation is worsening in the twenty-first century. The global food crisis is increasingly visible due to frequent and massive climate...