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The Culture of Cold War Politics

Primary Sources

USA

  • George Kennan,‘The Long Telegram', 22 February 1946 (text on containment policy)
  • NationalSecurity Council, ‘NSC 68’, April 1950 (text, especially sections I-VII)
  • John F. Kennedy, 'The NewFrontier', 15 July 1960 (text and live recording)
  • ExComm, ‘Cuban Missilecrisis’, 18 October 1962 (live recording)
  • ExComm, 'Cuban MissileCrisis', 19 October 1962 (live recording)

    • UK

  • Churchill, ‘Sinews of Peace’ (ironcurtain speech), 5 March 1946 (text and live recording)

    • Soviet Union

  • 'The NovikovTelegram', September 1946 (text)
  • Zhdanov,‘Founding of the Cominform’ (two camps speech), Sept. 1947 (text)

    • Secondary Readings

  • Appy, Christian G. (ed.), Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism (Boston, 2000).
  • Beer, Francis A., and Hariman, Robert (eds.), Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations (East Lansing, MI, 1996).
  • Costigliola, Frank, ‘“Unceasing Pressure for Penetration”: Gender, Pathology, and Emotion in George Kennan’s Formulation of the Cold War’, Journal of American History, 83 (1997), 1309-39.
  • Costigliola, Frank, ‘The Nuclear Family: Tropes of Gender and Pathology in the Western Alliance’, Diplomatic History, 21 (1997), 163-83.
  • Dean, Robert D., ‘Masculinity as Ideology: John F. Kennedy and the Domestic Politics of Foreign Policy’, Diplomatic History, 22 (1998), 29-62.
  • Dean, Robert D., Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy (Amherst, , 2001).
  • Hinds, Lynn Boyd and Windt, Theodore Otto, The Cold War as Rhetoric: The Beginnings, 1945-1950 (London, 1991).
  • Hopf, Ted, Social Construction of International Politics: Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999 (Ithaca, NY, 2002).
  • Hunt, Michael, Ideology and US Foreign Policy (New Haven, 1987).
  • Medhurst, Martin J. et al., Cold War Rhetoric: Strategy, Metaphor and Ideology (Ann Arbor, 1997).
  • Rosenberg, Emily S., ‘“Foreign Affairs” after World War II: Connecting Sexual and International Politics’, Diplomatic History, 18 (1994), 59-70.
  • Westad, Odd Arne (ed.), Reviewing the Cold War : approaches, interpretations, theory (London, 2000).
  • Westad, Odd Arne (ed.), The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Cambridge, 2005).
  • Zubok, Vladislav and Constantin Pleshakov, Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev (Cambridge, MA 1996).
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