THE COLD WAR

Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War: A World History (New York: Basic Books, 2017) ("My argument . . . is that the Cold War was born from the global transformations of the late nineteenth century and was buried as a result of tremendous rapid changes a hundred years later. Both as an ideological conflict and as an international system it can therefore only be grasped in terms of economic, social, an political change that is much broader and deeper than the events created by the Cold War itself." Id. at 5. "History is complex. We do not always know where ideas will lead us. Better, then, to consider carefully the risks we are willing to take to achieve good results, in order not to replicate the terrible toll that the twentieth century took in its search for perfection." Id. at 629.).