Rethinking theory and history in the Cold War
Subtitle: the state, military power, and social revolution
By: Richard Saull ; with a foreword by Fred Halliday
Series: Cass series--Cold War history -- 2
Publisher: F. Cass
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Historiography; Modern Military history; World politics; Cold War; Foreign relations
Description: "This book provides a critique of the understandings of the Cold War prevalent in International Relations (IR) thought and offers an alternative perspective founded on an historical-materialist approach to IR."

"Rethinking Theory and History in the Cold War focuses on what we mean by 'politics' and 'international relations' and how such assumptions have come to determine our understanding of the Cold War. Using an historical-materialist method, the author criticizes conventional conceptions of international politics that tend to focus on the agency of and relations among states, and offers an alternative historical sociology of the Cold War through an analysis of the relationship between formal political authority and socio-economic production.

Seen from this perspective, the state the modern conceptions of politics can be seen as products of a capitalist modernity, in which politics is based on the separation of the spheres of politics in the state and economics in civil society."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. Introduction: What Was the Cold War? 2. The Cold War and International Relations Theory; title: Realism and the Cold War; title: Pluralist and Ideas-Based Approaches to the Cold War; title: Historical Materialist Approaches to the Cold War PART I: THEORY 3 The Politics of the State in the Cold War; title: Realism, the State and the Cold War in International; title: Relations Theory; title: Reconstructing a Politics of the State in the Cold War; title: Conclusion: The Real Politics of the Cold War 4 Military Power and Strategic Conflict in the Cold War; title: Military Power in the Cold War; title: Geopolitical Determinants of Military Power in the; title: Cold War; title: Domestic Determinants of Military Power in the Cold War; title: Social Relations of Military Power in the Cold War; title: Conclusions Social Revolution and the Cold War; title: Non-Marxist Approaches to Social Revolution and the; title: Cold War; title: Marxist Approaches to Social Revolution in the Cold War; title: Social Revolution as the Dynamic of the Cold War; title: Revolutionary Consequences of Capitalist Development; title: Conclusions: The Cold War as Social Revolution; title: PART II: HISTORY 6. The International Relations of the USSR in the Cold War; title: The International Relations of the USSR and Social; title: Revolution; title: Cuba; title: Vietnam; title: Conclusions 7. The International Relations of the United States in the; title: Cold War; title: The International Relations of the United States and; title: Social Revolution; title: Cuba; title: Vietnam; title: Conclusions 8. Conclusion: Understanding the Cold War and Its End; title: Politics and the State; title: Military Power as a Currency of Politics; title: Capitalism and Revolutionary Social Transformation; title: The Ends of the Cold War Bibliography; title: Index.