The regional cold wars in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East : crucial periods and turning points / edited by Lorenz M. Lüthi.

Introduction / Lorenz M. Lüthi -- Agency, structure, and interdependence: reflections on the regional and global cold wars / Robert J. McMahon -- Part I. 1953-1956 -- Changing historical trajectories at the nexus of 1953-1956 / Christopher E. Goscha -- A window of opportunities in Europe / Lorenz M. Lüthi -- China's emerging role on the world stage / Qiang Zhai -- Constructing Nasser's neutralism: Egypt and the rise of nonalignment in the Middle East / Jovan Cavoki -- Part II. 1965-1969 -- The great transition: from geopolitics to geoeconomics / Andrew Preston -- Europe and the making of Détente / Vojtech Mastny -- China's turn to the world / Lorenz M. Lüthi and Chen Jian -- The Cold War in the Arab world / Guy Laron -- Part III. 1978-1983 -- Shadow boxing: or, pretending to wage cold war in a (nearly) postideological era / David A. Welch -- The second Cold War in Europe: the paradoxes of a turbulent time / William R. Keylor -- Strategic shifts in East Asia / Lorenz M. Lüthi -- A crescent of crisis: the Middle East and Persian Gulf / Craig Daigle -- Part IV. The late 1980s -- End and ends: the Cold War in international history at the systemic and subsystemic levels / J. Simon Rofe -- Gorbachev in Europe and Asia / Sergey Radchenko -- In a blind spot: Eastern Europe and the superpowers in 1989 / Constantine Pleshakov -- From reconciliation to estrangement: relations between China and Eastern Europe / Péter Vámos -- The international system and the Middle East regional system: interactions during the transition from bipolarity to unipolarity / Yair Evron.

Includes bibliographical references and index.