The Cold war Context: Origins and First Stages

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Two Schools of Thought

• Orthodox: principal responsibility on USSRJohn Lewis Gaddis “We now know”

• Revisionist: The US also responsibleWalter LaFeber, Thomas Paterson, Melvyn

Leffler

“4Ps” approach

• Peace: International Institutionalism and the UN

• Power: Nuclear Deterrence and ContainmentThe formative years 1947-50Intensification, 1950s to the early 1960s

Cont.

• Principles: Ideological Bipolarity and the Third World ‘ABC’ Approach

• Prosperity: Creation of the Liberal International Economic Order (LIEO)

Foreign Policy Politics and the Cold War

• ConsensusPresidential dominance over CongressVast expansion of the executive-branch FP and

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