Table of Contents:
  • What was the Cold War? When and why did it end? / Richard K. Herrmann and Richard Ned Lebow
  • Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War / Archie Brown
  • Regional conflicts as turning points : the Soviet and American withdrawal from Afghanistan, Angola and Nicaragua / Richard K. Herrmann
  • Turning points in arms control / Mattthew Evangelista
  • The emancipation of Eastern Europe / Jacques Lévesque
  • German unification / James W. Davis and William C. Wohlforth
  • Leadership and the end of the Cold War : a counterfactual thought experiment / George W. Breslauer and Richard Ned Lebow
  • Understanding the end of the Cold War as a non-linear confluence / Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein
  • Learning from the end of the Cold War / Richard K. Herrmann.