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The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man by Benjamin Cunningham Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 William T. Murphy
The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man
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Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America by Tanya Harmer Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Sebastián Hurtado-Torres
Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America
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The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain by Brian K. Goodman Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Stephan Delbos
The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain
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The Autobahn Crises of 1963: The U.S. Military and the Last Major Cold War Showdowns over Berlin Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 David I. Goldman
By mid-1963, the immediate threat to European security from the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 had receded, but East-West tensions over the city remained high. Although some scholars such as Marc Trachtenberg have claimed that the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was followed by a lasting East-West détente in Europe, this article shows that the status of Berlin remained a Cold War flashpoint
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Beginning of Winter: The George H.W. Bush Administration, the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, and the Emergence of the Post–Cold War World Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 James R. Stocker
The conflict that arose between Soviet Armenia and Soviet Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh in 1988 festered throughout the final years of the Soviet Union and sparked a major war between the newly independent Armenia and Azerbaijan in 1992–1994. Most accounts of this period have suggested that the administration of George H. W. Bush took a largely hands-off approach to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
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Overcoming a Cold War Mindset: Encounters with Soviet Musical Expertise in a Finnish Town Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Simo Mikkonen, Antti Okko
This article examines how a music festival in a regional Finnish town managed to overcome concrete and imagined Cold War limitations to become a venue for sustained encounters between Soviet and Western musicians starting in the mid-1960s. It explains how the Jyväskylä Summer Festival, which began in 1956 as one of the first festivals of its kind in the Nordic countries, acted as an intermediary and
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Kim Il-sung in the Soviet Army, 1940–1945: His Experience and Its Future Impact on the North Korean State and Armed Forces Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Konstantin Tertitski, Fyodor Tertitskiy
This article traces the origins of North Korea's militarized, repressive political system. It shows that the policies of the country's founder, Kim Il-sung, were heavily influenced by his personal experience in the USSR, or, more precisely, in the Soviet armed forces in the early 1940s. This factor has been largely overlooked by the academic community up to now. Drawing on a wealth of new sources in
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The Face of Soviet Espionage in the United States during the Stalin Era: Vladimir Pravdin, “Man of Truth” Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Steven Usdin
Vladimir Pravdin was a senior Soviet intelligence officer in New York and Washington, DC, during World War II. He oversaw some of the most important Soviet agents of the era, including Harry Dexter White, a senior official at the U.S. Treasury Department; Lauchlin Currie, the chief economic adviser to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt; and Judith Coplon, a U.S. Justice Department employee who provided
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Unwilling to Quit: The Long Unwinding of American Involvement in Vietnam by David L. Prentice Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Robert McMahon
Unwilling to Quit: The Long Unwinding of American Involvement in Vietnam
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Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs by Martin Siegel Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Harvey Klehr
Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs
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Winning Women's Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR by Diana Cucuz Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Denise J. Youngblood
Winning Women's Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR
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Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Africa: New Perspectives on the Era of Decolonization, 1950s to 1970s by Chris Saunders, Helder Adegar Fonseca, and Lena Dallywater Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Roger Kanet
Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Africa: New Perspectives on the Era of Decolonization, 1950s to 1970s
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Terrorism in the Cold War: State Support in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Sphere of Influence by Adrian Hänni, Thomas Riegler, and Przemysław Gasztold, eds.; and Terrorism in the Cold War: State Support in the West, Middle East and Latin America by Adrian Hänni, Thomas Riegler, and Przemysław Gasztold, eds. Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Benjamin Allison
Terrorism in the Cold War: State Support in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Sphere of Influence
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The Soviet “Struggle for Peace,” the United Nations, and the Korean War Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Vladimir Dobrenko
Before the Second World War the Soviet Union had been an isolated pariah state, but by the end of the war it had emerged as one of the world's two superpowers. Yet, the founding of the United Nations (UN) in October 1945 brought a new round of international isolation for the USSR, as a Western majority dominated the UN General Assembly during the first ten years of the organization's existence. This
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The Lessons of the Cold War for 21st-Century Strategy Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Deborah Welch Larson
This article assesses U.S. strategy during the Cold War and the lessons it holds for U.S. foreign policy in the 21st century, as laid out in a book recently published by Hal Brands of the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Although some points in the book are debatable, the exercise overall is valuable for what analysts nowadays refer to as a resurgence of “great-power
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Renewing the Cold War Narrative of “Special” Anglo-American Relations: Commemoration, Performance, and the American Bicentennial Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Robert M. Hendershot, Steve Marsh
This article uses the U.S. bicentennial as a case study to develop two themes about U.S.-British relations in the 1970s. First, the performative framework of commemoration was of considerable importance to the “special relationship.” The U.S. and British governments effectively used the bicentennial of an Anglo-American war to enact and popularize a distinctly useful historical narrative—a story of
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The Long Misunderstanding: Cuba's Economic Ties with the Soviet Bloc Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Radoslav Yordanov
This article examines the political and economic issues that arose in relations between the Soviet bloc and Cuba from 1959 through 1991, including the admission of Cuba into the Soviet-dominated Council for Economic Mutual Assistance (CMEA) in the early 1970s. The article breaks new ground by consulting previously unseen primary documents originating from the East European states and Cuba, which highlight
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Covert Diplomacy to Overcome a Crisis: West German and Israeli Intelligence after the Munich Olympics Attack Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Aviva Guttmann
What happens among intelligence communities when two countries face a diplomatic crisis? This article looks at the interactions between the West German Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) and Israel's Mossad in a multilateral liaison called the Club de Berne after the Munich Olympics attack in September 1972. The article shows that these covert links were a means to overcome the crisis and served
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The Olympics and the Cold War: A Historiography Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
This article is a historiographic review of the literature on the Olympic Games and the Cold War. The topic has been a growth area among scholars of both diplomatic history and the history of sports over the past three decades. Most of the literature has been in English, but a significant amount of work has appeared in French, German, and a few other languages. Despite the proliferation and richness
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Reykjavik Up Close: Reagan and Gorbachev, October 1986 and After Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Thomas W. Simons
A veteran U.S. diplomat, who is now one of the last living participants in the U.S.-Soviet summit meeting at Reykjavik in October 1986, traces the genesis, nature, and aftermath of that summit. He recounts changes in U.S.-Soviet relations during the first several years of the Reagan administration, including important events such as the 1983 Pentecostalist negotiations, the shootdown of a South Korean
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The First U.S.-Based Soviet Nuclear Spy: The Saga of Clarence Hiskey and Arthur Adams Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes
Years before anything was publicly disclosed about the nuclear espionage of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Klaus Fuchs, and Theodore Hall, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Army Intelligence identified Clarence Hiskey, a Manhattan Project scientist, as a Soviet spy helping to provide highly sensitive nuclear weapons information. The two agencies kept watch on a Soviet intelligence
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Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th Century Europe by Lisa Pine Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Mark Harrison
Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th Century Europe
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Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Wilson D. Miscamble
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
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African Students in East Germany 1949–1975 by Sara Pugach Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Fungisai Musoni-Chikede
African Students in East Germany 1949–1975
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Mountbatten, Cold War and Empire, 1945–79 by Adrian Smith Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 David Reynolds
Mountbatten, Cold War and Empire, 1945–79
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Storms over the Balkans during the Second World War by Alfred J. Rieber Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Nikos Marantzidis
Storms over the Balkans during the Second World War
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The CIA's Greatest Covert Operation: Inside the Daring Mission to Recover a Nuclear-Armed Soviet Sub by David H. Sharp Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Kenneth Sewell
The CIA's Greatest Covert Operation: Inside the Daring Mission to Recover a Nuclear-Armed Soviet Sub
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Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty by Mark Pomar and Under the Radar: Tracking Western Radio Listeners in the Soviet Union by R. Eugene Parta Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Anatol Shmelev
Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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Diplomatiya i diversiya na Balkanite: Britanskata politika kam Albaniya po vreme na i sled Vtorata svetovna voina [Diplomacy and Subversion in the Balkans: British Policy toward Albania during and after the Second World War] by Biser Petrov Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Nadia G. Boyadjieva
Diplomatiya i diversiya na Balkanite: Britanskata politika kam Albaniya po vreme na i sled Vtorata svetovna voina [Diplomacy and Subversion in the Balkans: British Policy toward Albania during and after the Second World War]
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Unmaking Détente: Yugoslavia, the United States, and the Global Cold War, 1968–1980 by Milorad Lazic Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Lorraine M. Lees
Unmaking Détente: Yugoslavia, the United States, and the Global Cold War, 1968–1980
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Would You Believe . . . the Helsinki Accords Changed the World? Advancing Global Human Rights and, for Decades, Security in Europe by Peter L. W. Osnos with Holly Cartner Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Vojtech Mastny
Would You Believe . . . the Helsinki Accords Changed the World? Advancing Global Human Rights and, for Decades, Security in Europe; Defrosting the Cold War and Beyond: An Introduction to the Helsinki Process, 1954–2022
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Dreams for a Decade: International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War by Stephanie L. Freeman Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Matthew A. Evangelista
Dreams for a Decade: International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War
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Evaluating the Demise of the Soviet Union Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Archie Brown, Thomas W. Simons, Ivan Kurilla, Andrea Graziosi, Louis D. Sell, Vladislav Zubok
Vladislav M. Zubok, Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 535pp. $35.00.
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A Lost Peace: Great Power Politics and the Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1967–1979 by Galen Jackson Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 William B. Quandt
A Lost Peace: Great Power Politics and the Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1967–1979
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The Making of a Cold War President Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 James G. Hershberg, David Greenberg, Barbara A. Perry, Luther Spoehr, Fredrik Logevall
Fredrik Logevall, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956. New York: Random House, 2020. 791 pp.
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Atoms for Industry: The Early Nuclear Activities of Fiat and the Atoms for Peace Program in Italy, 1956–1959 Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Barbara Curli
Fiat's nuclear activities began in the immediate postwar period, when the company financed initiatives meant to reconstruct applied and theoretical research on nuclear physics in Italy. However, its actual industrial involvement originated in the framework of the Atoms for Peace initiative, which provided the opportunity for the purchase of an American Machine and Foundry pool-type reactor for a research
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The “Bounties of Our New Servant”: Isotopes, Industry, and Economy before and after Atoms for Peace Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Néstor Herran
Produced and distributed at subsidized prices by national nuclear establishments, radioisotopes provided the earliest non-military application of nuclear energy. Starting in the late 1940s, thanks to their multiple uses in medicine and research, they were ubiquitous in conceptions for peaceful nuclear programs. In the 1950s, Atoms for Peace initiatives encouraged nuclear establishments to develop industrial
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From Global to Local: The Development of Heavy Water in International Nuclear Programs (1945–1970) Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Gloria Sanz-Lafuente
Because of how heavy water is produced and used, it has a unique business history and structure. In the late 1940s and 1950s, heavy-water reactors offered the dream of nearly inexhaustible quantities of nuclear power generation. This was because they could operate using natural uranium and also produce plutonium that could be used as fuel in breeder reactors (and also as fissile material for nuclear
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Freedom on the Offensive: Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War by William Michael Schmidli Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Robert Pee
Freedom on the Offensive: Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War. By SchmidliWilliam Michael (Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2022) 312 pp. $46.95
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The Turtle and the Dreamboat: The Cold War Flights That Forever Changed the Course of Global Aviation by Jim Leeke Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Roger Connor
The Turtle and the Dreamboat: The Cold War Flights That Forever Changed the Course of Global Aviation. By LeekeJim (Lincoln, NE, Potomac Books, 2022) 248 pp. $29.95
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Kennan: A Life between Worlds by Frank Costigliola Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Wilson D. Miscamble
Kennan: A Life between Worlds. By CostigliolaFrank (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2023) xxiv + 624 pp. $39.95
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KGB Man: The Cold War's Most Notorious Soviet Agent and the First to Be Exchanged at the Bridge of Spies by Cecil Kuhne Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Harvey Klehr
KGB Man: The Cold War's Most Notorious Soviet Agent and the First to Be Exchanged at the Bridge of Spies. By KuhneCecil (Brentwood, TN, Knox Press, 2023) 208 pp. $30.00
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Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements by Mark Solovey and Christian Dayé, eds. Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Nils Gilman
Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements
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Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines by Gregory A. Daddis Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Jorden Pitt
Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines
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The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures by Francesca Orsini, Neelam Srivastava, and Laetitia Zecchini, eds. Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Stephan Delbos
The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures
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Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military 1945–1980 by Tanya L. Roth Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Brenda L. Moore
Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military 1945–1980
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Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949 by Jeffrey Herf Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Thomas A. Dine
Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949
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Eisenhower & Cambodia: Diplomacy, Covert Action and the Origins of the Second Indochina War by William J. Rust Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Radoslav Yordanov
Eisenhower & Cambodia: Diplomacy, Covert Action and the Origins of the Second Indochina War
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The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History by Austin Jersild Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Yafeng Xia
The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History
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Degrees of Difficulty: How Women's Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace by Georgia Cervin Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 John Soares
Degrees of Difficulty: How Women's Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace
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U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: The Nixon Administration, Republican Party Operatives, and the Borghese Coup Plot of 1970 Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Jonathan Marshall
The Nixon administration's attempt to promote a military coup in Chile after the election of a far-left president in September 1970 is a well-documented example of U.S. officials’ willingness do whatever was needed to curtail Soviet influence in the Third World. Drawing on declassified White House documents and records of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, this article examines the parallel but
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Making the Alliance for Progress Serve the Few: U.S. Economic Aid to Cold War Brazil (1961–1964) Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Felipe P. Loureiro
This article analyzes the aid provided by U.S. and multilateral institutions to Brazilian states during the government of João Goulart in Brazil (1961–1964). Although scholars have long emphasized that John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress employed state-by-state shaped by Cold War goals that helped to destabilize Brazil's political system and to facilitate the advent of a military regime that lasted
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Why the Five Eyes? Power and Identity in the Formation of a Multilateral Intelligence Grouping Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Brad Williams
Adopting an analytically eclectic approach that draws on theories of realist bargaining, identity, and socialization, this article investigates the early Cold War origins of the Five Eyes intelligence grouping (the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand). An understanding of identity grounded in culture suggests a natural process of international intelligence community building
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Cinema as Cultural Diplomacy and the Cold War: U.S. Participation in International Film Festivals behind the Iron Curtain, 1959–1971 Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Jennifer Frost
During the Cold War, international film festivals proliferated on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The United States and the Soviet Union recognized these festivals as important venues for “cinematic diplomacy” and the pursuit of broader foreign policy goals. This article explores how the U.S. government, together with the U.S. motion picture industry, made use of its participation in the Moscow and
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The First Counterspy: Larry Haas, Bell Aircraft, and the FBI’s Attempt to Capture a Soviet Mole by Kay Haas and Walter W. Pickut Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Steven Usdin
The First Counterspy: Larry Haas, Bell Aircraft, and the FBI’s Attempt to Capture a Soviet Mole. By HaasKay and PickutWalter W. (Guilford, CT, Lyons Press, 2022) 371 pp. $29.95
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The Ends of Modernization: Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era by David Johnson Lee Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 John Soares
The Ends of Modernization: Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era. By LeeDavid Johnson (Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2021) 254 pp. $54.95
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Cold War Frequencies: CIA Clandestine Radio Broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe by Richard H. Cummings Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Nicholas J. Cull
Cold War Frequencies: CIA Clandestine Radio Broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. By CummingsRichard H. (Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2021) 269 pp. $45.00
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The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush edited by G. Pascal Zachary Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Neil J. Sullivan
The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush, edited by ZacharyG. Pascal (New York, Columbia University Press, 2022) 347 pp. $30.00
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The Many Faces of SALT Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Robert Jervis
This interpretive essay explores the multiple, changing faces of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. When SALT I was being negotiated in the early 1970s, it was generally viewed as the product of contemporary arms control theory that stressed the value of crisis stability. The U.S. national security adviser at the time, Henry Kissinger, justified the talks in those terms while also positioning them
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Containing Technology and Allies Alike: The Cold War, Intra-NATO Relations, and the U.S. Centrifuge Classification Initiative, 1958–1962 Journal of Cold War Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Elmar Hellendoorn
This article discusses how West European governments reacted to U.S. efforts to control the emergence and spread of gaseous diffusion and ultracentrifuge technology for uranium enrichment. The article focuses on Dutch, British, and West German Cold War perspectives on nuclear technological cooperation with the United States. U.S. insistence on maintaining secrecy around the ultracentrifuge was driven