article will examine revisionist treatments of six issues, central to the early Cold War, which exemplify very general, pervasive weaknesses in the handling of evidence and the testing of …

Jul 18, 2011 · But this is not an attempt to resolve the issues verbally: it is open to the revisionist to argue that the main causes of the lapse into Cold War by 1947–48 are to be found not in the …

revisionist interpretations to present a more balanced explanation of the begin ning of the cold war."2 What follows is an attempt to examine some of the elements of that consensus, to …

Historians commonly speak of three differing approaches to the study of the Cold War: "orthodox" accounts, "revisionism," and "post-revisionism." Nevertheless, much of the historiography on …

revisionism of the Cold War period. To do so, I draw on examples of historical revisionism in American academic discourses of the Cold War and ethnographic research on Italian and …

Starting with Gar Alperovitz, in his influential Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam (1965), "revisionist" scholars have focused on the U.S. decision to use atomic weapons against …

UNTERBERGER / Cold War Revisionism Reinterpreted 439 complex and sophisticated, often involving a subtle blending of the hypotheses already presented. In this vein, historians like …

This paper attempts to make an analysis of the Cold War revisionism through which it will make a critical appraisal of how revisionist historians interpret the Cold War struggle between the US …

From this view of "post-revisionism" emerged a line of inquiry that examines how Cold War actors perceived various events, and the degree of misperception involved in the failure of the two …

Post-Revisionists view the Cold War as a balancing act between the superpowers Orthodox and Revisionist accounts of the Cold War had many advocates – but some historians were …

Revisionism offers a valuable perspective on the Cold War by highlighting the role of the US in shaping the conflict. It forces us to consider the possibility that the US's actions might have …

Dec 3, 2017 · In the early years of the Cold War, the academic study of international relations was an ideological tool serving the foreign policy of the United States and its allies. But in the 1960s, a new generation of scholars began to challenge the reigning orthodoxy.

Is There a Revisionist Thesis on the Origins of the Cold War? MICHAEL LEIGH Recent historical analyses of the cold war have gen-erated a critical literature which is devoted to the …

Dec 1, 2017 · The old enemy, international communism, is gone, but a new one, international terrorism, has taken its place. And like their Cold War precursors, mainstream theorists of …

The conventional view of the so-called Cold War, as it still appears in such widely used textbooks as Spanier and Lukacz,’ is under attack. This view may be crudely presented in three …

Feb 25, 2025 · Sanger, a veteran reporter, tells a familiar story about how the hopeful era that followed the Cold War gave way to renewed great-power competition. Instead of bending to a …

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6 days ago · One idea in international relations that has broken through to popular discussions of geopolitics is that China is a ‘revisionist’ power — a state that seeks to challenge or fundamentally alter the existing international order. China in the 21st century fits the broad outline of what is sometimes thought of as a ‘revisionist’ power.