The Cold War: the great powers and their allies and The post-imperial age: the great powers and the wider world

1995 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-397
Author(s):  
M. L. Dockrill
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
The Cold War

un Security Council vs. Weapons of Mass Destruction

2016 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-161
Author(s):  
Hans Blix
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Security Council ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
Nuclear Program ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
The Cold War

International institutions given the task to maintain collective security and to seek disarmament need to build on cooperation between major powers. The authors of the un Charter vested great powers in the Security Council but a consensus between the five permanent great powers was required for use of the powers. This inevitably paralyzed the Council during the Cold War. After the end of the Cold War, the permanent members have remained unable jointly to pursue disarmament, but they have succeeded in several remarkable cases to reach consensus, notably on measures to prevent the further spread of weapons of mass destruction. The quick action to eliminate chemical weapons in Syria was a win-win case led by us-Russian diplomacy, while the comprehensive deal settling the controversy over Iran’s nuclear program was a victory for patient diplomacy involving all permanent members and the eu. These actions show the potentials of the Council.

The Great Powers in the Middle East, 1941-1947: The Road to the Cold War

1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 960
Author(s):  
John C. Campbell ◽  
Barry Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Cold War

scholarly journals The Cold War and Third World revolution

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Robert P. Hager
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Third World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Cold War

Much of the Cold War took place in the Third World. The three works authored by Gregg A. Brazinsky, Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry During the Cold War; Jeffry James Byrne, Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order; and Jeremy Friedman, Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World, are reviewed here and they provide historical details. A consistent theme that emerges is the importance of ideological factors in driving the events are discussed. It is also clear that the Third World states were not passive objects of pressure from great powers but had agendas of their own. These books provide useful material for theorists of international relations and policy makers.

From Yalta to the Iron Curtain: The Great Powers and the Origins of the Cold War.

1997 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 447
Author(s):  
Howard Jones ◽  
Pierre de Senarclens ◽  
Amanda Pingree
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
The Cold War

scholarly journals 18. Geopolitics and Grand Strategy

2018 ◽  
pp. 308-326
Author(s):  
Stefanie Ortmann ◽  
Nick Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Grand Strategy ◽  
World War ◽  
International Environment ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second World ◽  
Changing World

This chapter discusses the concept of geopolitics and its role in formulating and implementing a grand strategy. It first provides an overview of the relationship between grand strategy and geography before explaining how the meanings of grand strategy and geopolitics evolved in response to changing world historical contexts. It then considers the reasons why geopolitics and grand strategy are linked to the politics of great powers and why these concepts are currently making a comeback. In particular, it examines the revival of geopolitical thinking after the Second World War and how geopolitical reasoning informed containment as a grand strategy during the cold war. It also takes a look at the pitfalls and problems associated with formulating a grand strategy, especially in today's complex international environment. Finally, it argues that there is a need to rethink geopolitics with the ultimate goal of balancing ends and means.

Origins and Entrenchment of the Cold War, 1945–1953

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-116
Author(s):  
George W. Breslauer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
The Cold War

Several theories are considered to explain the determinants of Cold War between the United States and the USSR, countries that had been allies until 1945. If Stalin, not FDR, had died in 1945, there might have been a greater prospect of continued cooperation between the two great powers.

Unpacking the Contemporary Strategic Problem in Northeast Asia

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-160
Author(s):  
Barry Buzan ◽  
Evelyn Goh
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Contemporary Problem ◽  
Northeast Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Political Understanding ◽  
Second World

Chapter 4 begins in present-day NEA, and unpacks its core strategic problem of uncertainty associated with an apparent power transition, relating it squarely to the enforced alienation between the two indigenous great powers, China and Japan. It argues that neither a purely power-political understanding nor one that overly emphasizes nationalism and domestic impediments has been especially helpful to advancing our understanding of how Sino-Japanese alienation serves to constrain the development of East Asia’s post-Cold War order. Instead, one should understand the contemporary problem as resulting from the disintegration of the region’s post-Second World War settlement that centred on the United States acting as a ring-holder between China and Japan. Introducing the great power bargain framework, it shows how we might usefully distinguish between the constitutive and regulative aspects of such bargains. It then employs this framework to analyse Sino-Japanese alienation after the long nineteenth century, examining how efforts to create a partial new bargain between 1945 and 1989 were eventually undermined by the two countries’ changing characters and politics after the Cold War.

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