Now available in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History offers an authoritative and accessible introduction to the history and enduring legacy of the Cold War.

Thoroughly updated in light of new scholarship, including revised sections on  President NixonÂs policies in Vietnam and President ReaganÂs approach to U.S.-Soviet relations

Features six all new Âcounterparts sections that juxtapose important historical figures to illustrate the contrasting viewpoints that characterized the Cold War

Argues that  the success of Western capitalism during the Cold War laid the groundwork for the economic globalization and political democratization that have defined the 21st century

Includes extended coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear age thus far