1. The Cold war Context: Origins and First Stages W - 4

2. 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

3. “4Ps” approach Peace: International Institutionalism and the UN Power: Nuclear Deterrence and Containment The formative years 1947-50 Intensification, 1950s to the early 1960s

4. Cont. Principles: Ideological Bipolarity and the Third World ‘ABC’ Approach Prosperity: Creation of the Liberal International Economic Order (LIEO)

5. Foreign Policy Politics and the Cold War Consensus  Presidential dominance over Congress  Vast expansion of the executive-branch FP and defence bureaucracy  anticommunism