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John Lewis Gaddis (born April 2, 1941) is an American Cold War historian, political scientist, and writer. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University . [ 1 ]
The Fifty Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War. (2000) Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History (2005), basic summary; Gaddis, John Lewis. Russia, the Soviet Union and the United States. An Interpretative History 2nd ed. (1990) Gaddis, John Lewis. Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (1987) Gaddis, John Lewis.
"Long Peace" is a term for the unprecedented historical period of relative global stability following the end of World War II in 1945 to the present day. [1] [2] The period of the Cold War (1947–1991) was marked by the absence of major wars between the superpowers of the period, the United States and the Soviet Union.
Journal of Cold War Studies 1.3 (1999): 67–110. Duiker, William. US containment policy and the conflict in Indochina (Stanford University Press, 1994). Gaddis, John Lewis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War. 2004, a standard scholarly history; Gaddis, John Lewis.
Goncharov, Sergei, John Lewis and Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War (1993) Leffler, Melvyn. A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War (1992). Mastny, Vojtech. Russia's Road to the Cold War: Diplomacy, Warfare, and the Politics of Communism, 1941–1945 (1979) Zhang, Shu ...
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
“John Lewis was a titan of the civil rights movement whose goodness, faith and bravery transformed our nation – from the determination with which he met discrimination at lunch counters and on ...
When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War (2017) Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History (2005) online; Gaddis, John Lewis. The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations (1992) online; Garthoff, Raymond. The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the ...