This course revisits the closing years of the Cold War from  the late 1970s and dominating   international relations between the Unted States and the Soviet Union in  the 1980s  When it ended in 1991  it seemed at the time to presage the dawn of a new era of global peace, concord and international amity. The conflicts that have been fought in the world since then, most significantly  the on-going Russian war in Ukraine, have cruelly made a mockery of those hopes and dreams. How this rivalry ended and the reasons why it ended – without war- remains a subject of controversy and debate. 

5 Weeks – Weekly on Tuesdays

£120