This book is a revised edition of a 1993 volume that was the last of a four-volume set, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. Twenty years after the original volumes were published, the publisher invited each volume's author to prepare an up-to-date version in view of the scholarly developments and new perspectives gained during the two decades.
Such revision was particularly needed for this volume, the first edition of which recounted U.S. foreign relations after the Second World War through the beginning of the 1990s, right after the end of the Cold War. Much has happened since then, and today's readers (college students, for instance) would expect to find a reliable account not only of the Cold War but of the world transformation in its wake. This revised text admirably fills that need. It presents a straightforward and non-ideological history of the Cold War and provides a detailed...