This book provides a clear and lively account of how relations between Russia and America after World War Two fell into a Cold War. Assessing both the clash of ideas and personalities which brought about this confrontation the book highlights the emergences of a new mode of global politics. Looking at this conflict the book argues might help us to understand todays own troubled world.

Cold Wars: Themes And Trajectories
Casting Long Shadows: Revolution to War
Wars & Empire
Far From Hegemony? Uncertainties and Constraints
The Shape of the Cold War
Reflections on the Origins of the Cold War: Shapes
Strategies of Deception
The Origins of the Cold War
Then and Now: Landscapes and Shadows.

CAROLINE KENNEDY-PIPE is Professor of International Relations and War Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.