Western Defensive (and Offensive) Strategies in the Cold War
A Multiarchival, Multilingual Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16529591 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Stueck (University of Georgia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 623-630 |
| Publication date | 1990-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diplomatic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-2096 • E-ISSN: 1467-7709 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-7709.1990.tb00115.x |
| OpenAlex | W2094904149 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The theme of a number of the recent feature reviews in this journal is that American diplomatic historians do too little multiarchival and, in particular, multilingual research.1 In the most penetrating of these essays, Sally Marks, a historian of European international affairs, points out that Europeanists generally level two interrelated criticisms at students of U.S. foreign policy: that they overemphasize domestic factors as determinants of American policy and that they “rely ... on the assumptions of American officials about circumstances abroad.”2 Because the foundations for Beatrice Heuser's book are clearly multiarchival (American, British, and French) and multilingual (English, French, and German), they would on first sight pass the test of the Europeanists. Yet this turns out to be only partly the case. Moreover, in avoiding at least some of the pitfalls prevalent in works on U.S. foreign policy, Heuser gets caught in others that are not. In the end, her book illustrates many of the difficulties of writing international history but some of the potential as well
China · Cold war · Economic history · Foreign policy · German · Offensive · Operations research · Political science · Sight · Theme (computing · Engineering · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |