| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. By Odd Arne Westad. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv, 484 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-521-85364-8.)
International history is as hard as ever. For a time during the Cold War, historians of that contest imagined that if they could ever get into the archives of the Soviet Union and its allies, they would be able to bring balance and perspective to what till then was a lopsided story based on records from the West and conjecture regarding the East. To their amazement—and everyone else's—the Berlin Wall came down, the eastern bloc imploded, and the doors of the archives swung open, at least for a while. And yet, more than a decade later, Cold War historians are hardly closer to consensus than their predecessors were at the height of the superpower struggle.	1
Odd Arne Westad is the most capable current practitioner of Cold War international history, and his new book, The Global Cold War, constitutes the state of the disciplinary art. It is at once a tour de force and a tour d'horizon, summarizing and synthesizing primary and secondary research in several archives, languages, and literatures, and tracing and analyzing developments all around the globe. Hardly a sparrow falls in Asia, Africa, or Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century that Westad is not on hand to recount who shot it, who furnished the weapon, and how its demise affected the rest of the flock.	. . .

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