Introduction: Challenging the emergent orthodoxy / Ralph Summy
Did Reagan "win" the cold war? / April F. Carter
Ronald Reaganism ended the cold war
in the 1960s / Robert Elias
The End of the cold war: the Brezhnev doctrine / Joanne Wright
Gorbachev, the peace movement, and the death of Lenin / Jennifer Turpin
The Peace movement role in ending the cold war / David Cortright
Europe 1989: the role of peace research and the peace movement / Johan Galtung
The Erosion of regime legitimacy in Eastern European satellite states: the case of the German Democratic Republic / Ulf Sundhaussen
"Upper Volta with rockets": internal versus external factors in the decline of the Soviet Union / Dennis Phillips.
Marxism, capitalism, and democracy: some post-Soviet dilemmas / Geoff Dow
Whose cold war? / Rick Kuhn
Carrots were more important than sticks in ending the cold war / Kevin P. Clements
How the cold war became an expensive irrelevance / Keith Suter
The Continuing cold war / John W. Burton
In the shadow of the Middle Kingdom syndrome: China in the post-cold war world / C.L. Chiou
The Cold war...and after: a new period of upheaval in world politics / Joseph A. Camilleri
Conclusion: The End of the cold war: a political, historical, and mythological event / Michael E. Salla.