Asian Review
Publication Date
2003-01-01
Abstract
The end of the Cold War has renewed interest in Cold War historiography, leading to an explosion of academic literature in this field. A "new Cold War history" seems to be emerging, promising to offer a more international and less "orthodox" perspective, tapping on multi-archival sources. A spate of new works on the crucial and formative period of the Cold War (1945-52) has appeared, on the one hand, shedding a new light on the emergence of the postwar American empire and its foreign relations, and on the other hand, re-examining the role of the Soviet Union and its allies in the origins of the Cold War. This paper provides a general overview of this new trend in Cold War historiography, arguing that several dimensions of the Cold War are still present in the post-Cold War world, and that they could be understood by rethinking the Cold War and the American empire.
DOI
10.58837/CHULA.ARV.16.1.1
First Page
1
Last Page
43
Recommended Citation
Jayanama, Soravis
(2003)
"Rethinking the Cold War and the American empire,"
Asian Review: Vol. 16:
No.
1, Article 2.
DOI: 10.58837/CHULA.ARV.16.1.1
Available at:
https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/arv/vol16/iss1/2