The Last Decade of the Cold War: From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation Book

	Introduction : the Cold War in the 1980s
Pt. I	The 1980s in historical context
1	The 1980s revisited or the Cold War as history - again	3
2	The beginning and the end : time, context and the Cold War	29
3	The European role at the beginning and particularly the end of the Cold War	60
Pt. II	Explaining the shift in Soviet thinking and policy
4	Economic constraints and the turn towards superpower cooperation in the 1980s	83
5	Explaining the end of the Cold War : turning points in Soviet security policy	118
6	The sources of 'new thinking' in Soviet politics	135
7	The messianic character of Gorbachev's 'new thinking' : why and what for?	159
Pt. III	The United States and the ending of the Cold War
8	The US role in winding down the Cold War, 1980-90	179
9	The Carter legacy : entering the second era of the Cold War	196
10	The United States and the transformation of the Cold War	226
11	Reagan's anti-revolutionary offensive in the third world	241
Pt. IV	Europe in the last decade of the Cold War
12	Germany in the last decade of the Cold War	265
13	Before the wall : French diplomacy and the last decade of the Cold War, 1979-89	288
14	Helping to open the door? : Britain in the last decade of the Cold War	317
15	Italy and the battle of the euromissiles : the deployment of the US BGM-109 G 'gryphon', 1979-83	332
16	NATO's northern frontline in the 1980s	360
17	Playground of superpowers, Poland 1980-89 : a view from inside	372
18	Did Gorbachev liberate Eastern Europe?	402