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Mental Maps In The Early Cold War Era, 1945-1968

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The early Cold War was a period of dramatic change. New superpowers emerged, the European powers were eclipsed, colonial empires tottered. Political leaders everywhere had to make immense adjustments. This volume explores their hopes and fears, their sense of their place in the world and of the constraints under which they laboured.

JONATHAN WRIGHT recently retired as Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford, UK, and Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Christ Church. He is author of Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman, Germany and the Origins of the Second World War, and co-editor of Liberalism, Anti-Semitism and Democracy, Britain and Germany in Europe, 1945-90 and Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars.

STEVEN CASEY is Reader in International History at the London School of Economics, UK. He is author of Cautious Crusade: Franklin Roosevelt, American Public Opinion and the War against Nazi Germany, and Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics and Public Opinion, which won the 2009 Neustadt Award and the 2010 Truman Book Award. he is also co-editor (with Johnathan Wright) of Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars. His doctorate was written at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford.

Contributions to this work come also come from SUDHIR HAZAREESINGH (CUF University Lecturer in Politics and Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Balliol College), writing on Charles de Gaulle, and ANNE DEIGHTON (Professor of European International Politics, University Lecturer, Fellow, Wolfson College), writing on Ernest Bevin.

The book is published by Palgrave Macmillan and is available to buy here.