Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
PART
ONE. THE GRAND ALLIANCE
Chapter I – The Breach: The
Riga Axioms ... 17
Chapter II – The Yalta Axioms:
Roosevelt’s Grand Design ... 42
Chapter III – The World Bully
... 69
Chapter IV – The Straight
One-Two to the Jaw ... 87
PART
TWO. PEACEMAKING
Chapter V – The Highest Common
Denominator ... 109
Chapter VI – The A-1 Priority
Job ... 138
Chapter VIII – The Gospel of
National Security: Preparing for the War Just over the Horizon ... 193
Chapter IX – Casting the Die:
The Anticommunist Consensus ... 221
Chapter X – The End of
Diplomacy ... 257
PART
THREE. THE GREAT DIVIDE
Chapter XI – The All-Out Speech
... 275
Chapter XII – The Margin of
Safety ... 303
Chapter XIII – Rebuilding the
Arsenal ... 336
Chapter XIV – The End of the
Peace ... 366
Epilogue: The National Security
State from Blockade to Détente ... 395
Notes ... 413 Bibliography ...
491 Index ... 513
