The Realist Restoration: Histories of American and Soviet Diplomacy in the Near East, Latin America and Eastern Europe

Abstract

Bruce R. Kuniholm. The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East: Great Power Conflict and Diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980. 485 + xxiii pp. Lester D. Langley. The United States and the Caribbean, 1900-1970. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1980. 324 + i pp. Walter Ullmann. The United States in Prague, 1945-1948. Boulder, Co.: East European Quarterly and Columbia University Press, 1978. 205 + x pp. Few topics in American history have been as extensively and emotionally debated during the last two decades as American Cold War diplomacy. The debate has been energized by disillusionment with the policies of the United States in Southeast Asia, by the intensely ideological political controversies of the 1960s, by the government's release of many new historical sources for the 1940s, and, more simply, by the mere passage of time. A new generation of writers emerged who could recall only dimly the panicky early postwar fears of Soviet expansion.