.... So why is it worth revisiting this brief romance—this fairly obscure episode within the global panorama of the Cold War? Iandolo argues that it was far from marginal: “the history of the Soviet search for development in the Third World had West Africa at its center.” Though Moscow backed higher...

...Holger Nehring Protests against NATO’s plans to station US missiles on European soil created a crisis for the alliance in the last years of the Cold War. An account of the complicated bargaining among the United States and its European allies at that time has striking parallels with the present...

... limits, even as the current global moment encourages Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin to tout their bond. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 China Russia Soviet Union Ukraine international relations Cold War In early February 2022, Chinese President Xi Jinping...