The Cold war Context: Origins and First Stages W - 4
Two Schools of Thought Orthodox: principal responsibility on USSR John Lewis Gaddis “We now know” Revisionist: The US also responsible Walter LaFeber, Thomas Paterson, Melvyn Leffler
“4Ps” approach Peace: International Institutionalism and the UN Power: Nuclear Deterrence and Containment The formative years Intensification, 1950s to the early 1960s
Cont. Principles: Ideological Bipolarity and the Third World ‘ABC’ Approach Prosperity: Creation of the Liberal International Economic Order (LIEO)
Foreign Policy Politics and the Cold War Consensus Presidential dominance over Congress Vast expansion of the executive-branch FP and defence bureaucracy anticommunism