The Cold War in the 1950s

Nicolas Lewkowicz

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Nicolas Lewkowicz

Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: April 2024
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9781839985553

Subjects:: Political Theory, Politics: General Interest, Politics and International Relations

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The book claims that the United States and the Soviet Union attained the mastery of the international order by projecting universalist values that responded to the particularist markers of the domestic order that was generated in the 1950s. The geopolitical orientation adopted by the superpowers in the 1950s was shaped by the way in which their societies developed politically, socially and economically in the 1950s. The main argument of this book is that the quest for the mastery of the international order that informed superpower relations in the 1950s was guided by the need to respond to the local circumstances that emerged in the United States and the Soviet Union. The particularist markers that arose in the 1950s led to the establishment of a geopolitical project underpinned by certain universalist values that could be applied in order to build the superpowers' sphere of influence.

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Dedication
pp iii-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Introduction. The Unfoldment of the Cold War in the 1950s
pp 1-12

1 - The Ideological Construction of the Cold War in the 1950s
pp 13-40

2 - Faith, Dominion, and Managerialism: The Particularistic Markers of the Notion of American Exceptionalism in the 1950s
pp 41-72

3 - Communism, Eurasianism, and Despotism: The Markers of Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1950s
pp 73-104

4 - The Unidirectionality of History and Improving the World: Universalism in the Notion of American Exceptionalism
pp 105-132

5 - The Unidirectionality of History and Improving the World: Universalism in the Notion of American Exceptionalism
pp 133-164

6 - Centralization of Power and the Mastery of the International Order
pp 165-190

Bibliography
pp 191-208

Index
pp 209-213

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