Part 3 Annotated further reading guide

The Cold War of Peaceful Coexistence and the Rise of Multipolarity, 1963-71

There are now a number of archival based books on the Johnson administration:

  • W. I. Cohen and Nancy B. Tucker (eds.), Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World American Foreign Policy 1963–1968 (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1994).
  • H. W. Brands, The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power (Oxford University Press, New York, 1995).
  • J. Dumbrell, President Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Communism, (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2004)
  • Thomas Schwartz, Lyndon Johnson and Europe (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2003).

Much of this period is dominated by the escalation of the Vietnam War and subsequent US defeat:

  • Larry Berman, Lyndon Johnson’s War (Norton, New York, 1989).
  • Larry Cable, Unholy Grail: The US and the Wars in Vietnam, 1965–8 (Routledge, New York, 1991).
  • Lloyd C. Gardner, Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam (Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 1995).
  • George C. Herring, LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War (University of Texas Press, Austin, 1994).
  • Michael H. Hunt, Lyndon Johnson’s War: America’s Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945–1965 (Hill & Wang, New York, 1996).
  • David Kaiser, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2000).
  • Robert S. McNamara, In Retrospect (Times Books, New York, 1995).
  • David M. Barrett, Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and his Vietnam Advisers University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 1993).
  • Marilyn B. Young, The Vietnam Wars, 1945–90 (HarperCollins, New York, 1991).
  • Fredrick Logevall, Choosing War (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999).
  • Gerard J. de Groot, A Noble Cause? America and the Vietnam War (Pearson, Harlow, 2000).
  • R. Bennett-Woods, J. William Fulbright: Vietnam and the Search for a ColdWar Foreign Policy, (Cambridge, CUP, 2006).
  • D. Borer, Superpowers Defeated: Vietnam and Afghanistan Compared, (London, Frank Cass, 1999).
  • A. Daum, L. Gardner and W. Mausbach, (eds) America, the Vietnam War and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives, (Cambridge, CUP, 2003).

On the Chinese and Soviet sides:

  • Qiang Zhai, China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950–75 (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2000).
  • Ilya Gaiduk, The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War (Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 1996).
  • J. Chen, Mao’s China and the Cold War, (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
  • Ilya Gaiduk, Confronting Vietnam (Stanford University Press, 2003).

On Nixon and Vietnam:

  • Jeffrey Kimball, Nixon’s Vietnam War (University of Kansas Press, Kansas, 1999).
  • William Shawcross, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia. (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1987, 1st edn., 1979).
  • For the increasing involvement of the superpowers in the Middle East and how this interacted with the regional and domestic situations:
  • Yezid Sayigh and Avi Shlaim (eds.), The Cold War and the Middle East (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997).
  • G. Golan, Soviet Policies in the Middle East: from World War II to Gorbachev (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990).
  • I. Kass, Soviet Involvement in the Middle East: Policy Formulation, 1966–75 (Westview Press, Folkestone, 1978).
  • W. B. Quandt, Decade of Decisions: American Policy towards the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1967–76 (Berkeley, 1977).
  • M. N. Barnett and J. S. Levy, ‘Domestic Causes of Alliances and Alignments: the Case of Egypt, 1962–73’ International Organization (1991).
  • Malcolm Kerr, The Arab Cold War: Gamal ’Abd Al-Nasir and his Rivals, 1958–1970 (Oxford University Press, London, 3rd edn. 1971).
  • G. Golan ‘The Soviet Union and the Outbreak on the June 1967 Six Day War’, Journal of Cold War Studies (2006) Vol. 8, No.1. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_cold_war_studies/v008/8.1golan.pdf
  • Nigel Ashton, ed., The Cold War in the Middle East: regional conflict and the superpowers, 1967-73 (Routledge, London, 2007).
  • Laura James, Nasser at War (Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2006).
  • Michael Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2002).

For details of how participants saw the nature of Soviet–American Relations:

  • Anatoly Dobrynin, In Confidence (Random House, New York, 1995).
  • Dean Rusk, As I Saw It (Norton, New York, 1990).
  • Henry Kissinger, The White House Years (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1979).

For an overview:

  • Peter G. Boyle, American–Soviet Relations (Routledge, London, 1993).

For the opening to China and the problems in Sino–Soviet relations:

  • Alfred D. Low, The Sino–Soviet Dispute: An Analysis of the Polemics (Associated University Presses, London, 1976).
  • Yang-Kuisong, ‘The Sino-Soviet Border Clash of 1969’, Cold War History 1 (August 2000).
  • Chen Jian and David Wilson, ‘New Evidence on the Sino–American Opening’, Cold War International History Project Bulletin 11 (Winter 1998).
  • Odd Arne Westad (ed,), Brothers in Arms The Rise and Fall of the Sino–Soviet Alliance 1945–1963 (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Washington, DC, 1998).

On Latin America with the shift in Johnson’s policy and its acceptance of overt intervention and the move, continued under Nixon, to favouring dictatorships:

  • Abraham Lowenthal, The Dominican Intervention (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1995).
  • Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: the US in Central America (Norton, New York, 2nd edn., 1993).

On the Cold War in other parts of the less developed world:

  • Matthew Jones, Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961–1965: Britain, the United States, Indonesia and the Creation of Malaysia (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002).
  • Suzanne Cronje, The World and Nigeria: the Diplomatic History of the Biafran War (Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1972).

On the Prague Spring in 1968:

  • William Shawcross, Dubček (Hogarth Press, London, 1990).
  • Kenneth K. Skoug, Czechoslovakia’s Lost Fight for Freedom (Praeger, Westport, 1999).
  • H. Gordon Skilling, Czechoslovakia’s Interrupted Revolution (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1976).
  • James G. McGinn, ‘The Politics of Collective Inaction NATO’s response to the Prague Spring’, Journal of Cold War Studies 1/3 (Fall, 1999).

On the problems in Trans-Atlantic Relations focused on France:

  • F. Bozo, Two Strategies for Europe: de Gaulle, the United States and the Atlantic Alliance (Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2001).

On Western Europe and the origins of détente in Europe:

  • S. R. Ashton, In Search of Détente (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1989).
  • Josef Korbel, Détente in Europe (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1972).
  • Gottfried Niedhart, ‘Ostpolitik’, in Caroline Fink et al. (eds.), 1968: The World Transformed (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998).
  • Willy Brandt, ‘German Policy towards the East’, Foreign Affairs, 3 (April 1968).
  • F. Bozo, Two Strategies for Europe: de Gaulle, the United States and the Atlantic Alliance (Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2001).
  • James Ellison, The US, Britain and the Crises in Tansatlantic Relations, 1963-68 (Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2007).
  • N. Piers Ludlow, The European Community and the Crises of the 1960s (Routledge, London, 2006).
  • N. Piers Ludlow, ed., European Integration and the Cold War: Ostpolitik-Westpolitik, 1965-73 (Routledge, London, 2007).
  • Jan van der Harst, Beyond the Customs Union: the European Community’s quest for completion, 1969-75 (Nomos, Baden, 2008).

But on the problems of nuclear strategy see:

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