Revolutionary World

The Cold War, which for nearly half a century so profoundly conditioned our thinking about the world in which we lived, ended in 1990. Most students now in our universities were young children then and have never consciously known the bipolar world. Yet the books they use on their courses are often the product of an earlier reality, even when nominally ‘updated’ in new editions. Lee’s account is one of the first to reflect the emerging new paradigms that are beginning to refashion the way we …