Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev : Revisiting the End of the Cold War

This work is a contemporary chronicle of the Cold War and offers an analysis of policy and rhetoric of the United States and Soviet Union during the 1980s. The authors examine the assumptions that drove political decisions and the rhetoric that defined the relationship as the Soviet Union began to implode.

Joseph M. Siracusa is Professor of International Diplomacy and Director of Global Studies in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology where he is a specialist in nuclear politics and global security. Richard Dean Burns is Professor Emeritus and former chair of the History Department at California State University, Los Angeles. Norman A. Graebner is Randolph P. Compton Professor of History and Public Affairs Emeritus, the University of Virginia.