Luis Adrin Jimnez

April 11, 2016

Ms. Melissa Arroyo
English 8
Research Paper Cold War Annotated Bibliography:
1. Kramer, Mark. Ideology and the Cold War. Review of International St3.3udies
(1999). 539- 541.
Western scholars have long disagreed about the role that ideology played in the
Cold War. The release of crucial documentation from the former East- bloc archives has
shed new light on the question, but no consensus is likely to emerge. Even if all the
archives are eventually opened, the new evidence will not -and cannot- provide full
vindication for either realism or an ideology-based approach. A key task for scholars will
be to reexamine the broad and often unspoken assumptions on which specific US and
Soviet policies were based. (Kramer, Mark)
2. Laidi, Zaki. Rethinking Post- Cold War. Economic and Political Weekly ( 1994).
2,067.
This article talks about how the governments of the world were able to agree to
live in peace and globalization. The Kantian vision, which sprinkled with references to
the enlightenment , has had to deal with international realities that refuse to fit into any
technological scheme. What we have today is a loose international system whose
distinctive feature but the increasing tension between the dynamics of power which
under pressure are pushing towards globalization and integration, and the problematic of
meaning which, ever since its lost its teleological base, appears to be progressively
divisible, flaky, and transient. (Laidi, Zaki)
3.Hopkins, Michael F. Continuing Debate and New Approaches in Cold War History.
The Historical Journal (2007). Pg. 914-915.
The Cold War lasted almost fifty years and ended nearly twenty years ago. A
vast historiography continues to grow. In explaining the past and continuing debate, this
article is necessarily selective. It has three aims. The first is to locate the main phases
and trends in the debate about the Cold War. The second is to analyse the growing
literature on the end of the Cold War. Thirdly, it attempts to identify a number of major
themes by looking beyond geopolitical issues to various aspects of the cultural Cold War,
to espionage and intelligence, and to economic dimension. The review has three
conclusions. First, diplomacy and strategic issues have been extensively explored,
though more is needed on the Soviet Union and especially on China. Secondly, analysis
of the Soviet Union and China remains thin. Lastly, the growing coverage of cultural
issues has deepened our understanding but needs to be integrated into political and
strategic narratives. (Hopkins, Michael F.)