The Cold War has been researched in minute detail and written about at great length but it remains one of the most elusive and enigmatic conflicts of modern tim

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From "the foremost U.S. historian of the modern Middle East" ("L.A. Times") comes a powerful argument that the global conflicts now playing out explosively in t

A new interpretation of the Cold War from the perspective of the smaller and middle powers in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.