Mental Maps in the Era of Détente and the End of the Cold War 1968–91

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Steven Casey, Jonathan Wright

   Pages 1-5

3. ‘Do not think I am soft …’: Leonid Brezhnev

   • Vladislav Zubok

   Pages 6-23

4. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger:The Outsiders?

   • Jussi M. Hanhimäki

   Pages 24-41

5. Salvador Allende

   • Victor Figueroa-Clark

   Pages 42-59

6. Nicolae Ceauşescu

   • Eliza Gheorghe

   Pages 60-80

7. Julius Nyerere

   • Emma Hunter

   Pages 81-96

8. King Hussein of Jordan

   • Nigel Ashton

   Pages 97-113

9. President Soeharto

   • David Jenkins

   Pages 114-136

10. Deng Xiaoping

    • Yafeng Xia

    Pages 137-155

11. Václav Havel

    • Kieran Williams

    Pages 156-173

12. Willy Brandt and Helmut Kohl

    • Jonathan Wright

    Pages 174-194

13. Ronald Reagan

    • Luis da Vinha

    Pages 195-215

14. Mikhail Gorbachev

    • Archie Brown

    Pages 216-235

15. Nelson Mandela

    • Rita Barnard, Monica Popescu

    Pages 236-249

16. Conclusion

    • Jonathan Wright, Steven Casey

    Pages 250-252

17. Back Matter

    Pages 253-259

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Mental Maps in the Era of Détente and the End of the Cold War recreates the way in which the revolutionary changes of the last phase of the Cold War were perceived by fifteen of its leading figures in the West, East and developing world.

• Mental maps
• Cold War
• international politics
• leaders
• détente
• politics
• revolution

“This book is a hugely ambitious and very wide-ranging summary of no fewer than fifteen visions of political leadership, from Richard Nixon to Nelson Mandela. Mental Maps in the Era of Détente tackles a very important topic and its pen-portraits would make an extremely useful teaching aid.” (James Cameron, History - Journal of the Historical Association, December, 2016)

• London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

  Steven Casey

• Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK

  Jonathan Wright

Vladislav Zubok, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Jussi Hanhimaki,Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland Victor Figueroa-Clark, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Eliza Gheorghe, University of Oxford, UK Emma Hunter, University of Edinburgh, UK Nigel Ashton, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK David Jenkins, Independent Scholar Yafeng Xia, East China Normal University, China Kieran Williams, Drake University, USA Luis Da Vinha, Valley City State University, USA Archie Brown, University of Oxford, UK Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania, USA Monica Popescu, McGill University, Canada.

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