| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.2

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Deborah Welch Larson. Anatomy of Mistrust: U.S.-Soviet Relations during the Cold War. (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1997. Pp. xi, 329.

The Cold War, according to Deborah Welch Larson, was not inevitable. The realist argument that the East-West confrontation flowed inexorably from the the vacuum of power created by World War II and the geopolitics of two competing superpowers simply does not hold water. Both alliance systems were economically and strategically self-sufficient, she argues; no meaningful territorial disputes separated the United States and the Soviet Union. One was a land power, the other a sea power. And yet, undeniably, there was a Cold War that preoccupied and terrified the world for nearly a half century. Why? . . .

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