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Part I: Perspectives 1. Introduction: The Fifty Years' War 2. The American and Soviet Foreign Policy Part II: The Emergence of a Bipolar World 1941-1953 3. The Second World War and the Struggle for Peace 1941-1946 4. `Two Ways of Life': The Cold War in Europe 1947-1953 5. Cold War: The Far Eastern Dimension, 1945-1950 Part III: Globalism and the Limits of Bipolarity 1953-1964 6. Peaceful Coexistence and Irreconcilable Conflict 7. The Nuclear Arms Race 1945-1963 8. The United States, the Soviet Union and the Third World Part IV: Detente and its Limits 1965-1981 9. Detente in the Making 1965-1973 10. The Vietnam War and the Superpower Triangle 11. Detente Under Pressure 1973-1981 Part V: Cold War V International Politics: The Denouement 1981-1991 12. Reaganism and the Spectre of Communism 13. Gorbachev and the New World Disorder Conclusion