In this historiography, the conclusions made by historians of the revisionist camp that assert the hidden handed yet ultimately successful legacy of President Dwight D. Eisenhower is placed under review by considering the work of post-revisionist scholars’ assessment of the Eisenhower administration’s foreign policy decisions during the 1950s. Specifically, the insights and arguments made by su...

The end of the Cold War led to a large drop in world military expenditure, rising fixed costs of developing weapons because of technological changes and a reduction of national preference for domestic weapons. Alongside these developments has been an increase in concentration in the world arms industry, which at the end of the Cold War had been very unconcentrated with concentration ratios clos...

Afghans’ protracted displacement is a geopolitical legacy from the Cold War. Although Pakistan’s return policymaking has foreseen complete voluntary of Afghans since end War, then as now, about three million reside in Pakistan. This article advances notion calculated informality to dissolve this seeming contradiction. policymakers have excelled by successfully navigating domestic and arena over...

Abstract This article explores how political division manifested itself in the electricity systems of West and East Berlin analyses strategies both throughout 40 years Cold War. It reveals goal full energy independence propagated by proved illusory for material, geopolitical, institutional, economic environmental reasons. Apart from vestiges past interdependence, pressures to collaborate gained...

Berger, Daniel, Corvalan, Alejandro, Easterly, William, and Satyanath, Shanker—Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? The United States’ wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have revived again the phenomenon of ‘‘regime change’’ that was thought to have died with the Cold War. We study Cold War ‘‘regime changes’’ for insight, although of course they do not extr...

This article engages continuing discussions in childhood studies on (re)inserting the study of into wider socio-political matrices power and practices. We present as a potent analytical strategy to do this work ‘child method’, developed by one authors. After describing we draw Recollect/Reconnect project, which scholars artists who grew up during last decades Cold War recalled their memories. f...

This article traces the development of Japan’s foreign policy since the end of World War II. It asks whether the concept of a reactive state is still valid as an explanation of Japan’s foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. The article surveys the origins and key features of the Yoshida Doctrine, and discusses the limitations placed on Japan’s Cold War foreign policy. The article introduces t...

The foundation stone for the creation of IASS was laid at First International Conference on Scandinavian Studies which took place University Cambridge, England, in July 1956. Few months later, world woke up to news Soviet invasion Budapest November 4th, a defining moment history Cold War, sent political shock waves and flow nearly quarter-million Hungarian refugees Western Europe. But how did t...

This paper reviews the origin and theoretical foundation of the concept MilitaryIndustrial Complex and explains the key issues involved in the literature on the MIC in the Cold war context. It then considers the implications for the MIC of some main post-Cold War developments, with particular emphasis on the arms industry, its structure and effects. It then assesses the degree to which the end ...