One More 'Lost Peace': Rethinking the Cold War After Twenty Years

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Were there any missed chances to build a more peaceful world than the present one after the Cold War Were there any attempts at working out a more comprehensive and more cooperative way to overcome it What was precisely at stake during the Cold War What was really at stake for the 'losers' and what stakes did the 'winners' gain - if there are any 'winners' at all Those questions were raised during a seminar where some outstanding scholars were invited to discuss them plainly before an audience of young students in an ancient, yet 'peripheral' Italian university. The result may be seen as a readable concentration of basic and meaningful insights that often defy a noticeable amount of conventional wisdom on the ground of careful and authoritative scholarly research.

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Raffaele D'Agata is one of Italy's best known historians of the Cold War era. -- Odd Arne Westad, Harvard University

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Raffaele D'Agata is professor of contemporary history at the University of Sassari. He has published books on international twentieth-century history, including Da Monaco a Bretton Woods: l'evoluzione transnazionale degli interessi e degli scopi (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1989) and La nemesi dei prestadenaro : economia mondiale e Guerra fredda, 1944-1948 (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2001).
Lawrence Gray is professor of political science and international relations at John Cabot University in Rome. His publications include The Italian Communist Party: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Greenwood Press, 1980), co-edited with Simon Serfaty; Corporate Activities in the Era of Global Economy (Tokyo: Keizai University Press, 1992); and L'America di Roosevelt negli anni dell'esilio di Luigi Sturzo (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2002).