Topic 12

Required Reading

George C. Herring, “America and Vietnam: The Unending War”, Foreign Affairs, Winter, 1991, Vol.70(5), pp.104-119.

Ken Cunningham, “A Critical Theory of the Rationality of US Foreign Policy: The Case of the American War in Vietnam”, New Political Science, 01 December 2002, Vol.24(4), pp.509-523.

John Lewis Gaddis, “The Tragedy of Cold War History”, Diplomatic History, 1993, Vol.17(1), pp.1-16.

Michael Mandelbaum, “Ending the Cold War”, Foreign affairs, 1989, Vol.68(2), pp.16-36.

Joshua Muravchik, “The End of the Vietnam Paradigm”, Commentary, May, 1991, Vol.91(5), pp.17-23.

Thomas G. Paterson, “Cold War Revisionism: A Practitioner's Perspective”, Diplomatic History, 2007, Vol.31(3), pp.387-395.

Benjamin O. Fordham, “Domestic Politics, International Pressure, and the Allocation of American Cold War Military Spending”, The Journal of Politics, 1 February 2002, Vol.64(1), pp.63-88.

Jussi M. Hanhimäki, “The (really) good war? Cold War nostalgia and American foreign policy”, Cold War History, 02 October 2014, Vol.14(4), pp.673-683.

Edward Pessen, “Appraising American Cold War Policy by its Means of Implementation”, Reviews in American History, 1 December 1990, Vol.18(4), pp.453-465.

John Lewis Gaddis, “Toward the Post-Cold War World”, Foreign Affairs, 1 April 1991, Vol.70(2), pp.102-122.

John Lewis Gaddis, Chapter 12, “Epilogue: Containment After the Cold War”, Strategies of Containment : A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War, New York : Oxford University Press ,2005.