![]() There is a vast and continually expanding literature on the Cold War, offering much of value to international-relations scholars. Indeed, our understanding of the Cold War is constantly subject to reinterpretation, revision, and modification, as new evidence, new methodologies, and new actors emerge from obscurity. Scholars increasingly, and quite rightly, highlight the many ways in which Asian, African, and Latin American states in particular attempted to transcend the apparent strictures imposed by Soviet-American hostility. Recent studies have done much to complicate the once dominant bipolar understanding of this struggle. While different scholars emphasize different facets of this competition, the Cold War was at once an ideological, political, economic, cultural, military, and strategic contest between the United States and its allies on one hand, and the Soviet Union and its allies on the other. ![]() ![]() ![]() The term “Cold War” refers to the period of Soviet-American antagonism that dominated the international system from approximately 1945 to 1991. ![]()
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