The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations Volume IV - America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991

​America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991 is the first post-Cold War analysis of the origins of the Soviet-American confrontation and its extension from the central arena in Europe to the periphery in the Third World. It explores the conditions in the international system at the end of World War II, the American determination to provide leadership, and the "security dilemma", each superpower posed for the other. All of the major foreign-policy issues, including the origins of the Soviet-American conflict; the extension of the confrontation to Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere on the periphery; \v: in Korea and Vietnam; crises involving the Taiwan Straits, Berlin, and Cub: the rise and fall of détente; imperial overreach; and the critical roles of Reagan and Gorbachev in the 1980s are carefully analyzed and explained.