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John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian and acclaimed author of The Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught the grand strategy seminar at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now, in On Grand Strategy, Gaddis reflects with...
In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International Communism seemed everywhere on the offensive: all of Eastern Europe was securely in the Soviet camp; America's...
When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the...
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape...
The Cold War ended with an exhilarating wave of events: the toppling of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the dissident poet Vaclav Havel, the revolution in Romania. Americans rejoiced at the dramatic conclusion of the long struggle. "But victories in wars--hot or cold--tend...
Un vers du poète grec Archiloque : « Le renard sait beaucoup de choses, mais le hérisson sait une grande chose. » Cet aphorisme, remis à l’honneur en 1951 par le philosophe britannique Isaiah Berlin dans un essai qui fit fureur, sert de point de départ à John Lewis...
1945. La guerre est finie. Un nouvel affrontement, d’une nature et d’une ampleur inédites, commence. George Orwell lui donnera un nom : la guerre froide. De 1947 à la chute du mur de Berlin (1989) puis de l’Union soviétique (1991), le monde va vivre sous cette menace....
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