How has it happened that the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get through more than four decades of Cold War confrontation without going to war with one another? Historian John Lewis Gaddis suggests answer to this and other vital questions about post-war diplomacy in this new book. Gaddis uses recently declassified American and British documents to explore several key issues in Cold War history that remain unresolved: Precisely what itwas about the Soviet Union's behaviour after World War II that American leaders found so threatening? Whether the United States really wanted a sphere of influence in post-war Europe? What led the Truman administration first to endorse, but then immediately to avoid American military involvement on the mainland of Asia? This is a provocative exercise in contemporary history, certain to generate new insights on both past and present aspects of the age we live in.

作者：（美国）约翰·刘易斯·加迪斯（John Lewis Gaddis） 译者：潘亚玲

约翰·刘易斯·加迪斯，现为耶鲁大学罗伯特·A拉韦特（Robert A Lovett）讲座教授，著名的冷战史学家和大战略研究家，曾被《纽约时报》称作“冷战史学家泰斗”，2005年获美国“国家人文奖章”（National Humanities Medal），出版了多部有关冷战的系列著作。

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潘亚玲，现任职于复旦大学美国研究中心。2007年毕业于复旦大学国际关系与公共事务学院，获得博士学位。主要研究兴趣为美国对外与安全政策、美国社会思潮与美国对外政策、国际关系理论等，曾在《世界经济与政治》、《美国研究》等刊物上发表二十余篇专业学术论文。