Revised papers of a symposium organized by the Norwegian Nobel Institute at Lysebu in 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On starting all over again : a na�ive approach to the study of the Cold War / John Lewis Gaddis -- Bringing it together : the parts and the whole / Melvyn P. Leffler -- How (not) to study the origins of the Cold War / Gier Lundestad -- Liberty or death : the Cold War as US ideology / Anders Stephanson -- Social science, history, and the Cold War : pushing the conceptual envelope / Richard Ned Lebow -- A certain idea of science : how international relations theory avoids reviewing the Cold War / William C. Wohlforth -- Culture, international relations theory, and Cold War history / Yale Ferguson and Rey Koslowski -- Formal ideologies in the Cold War : toward a framework for empirical analysis / Douglas J. Macdonald -- The United States and the Cold War arms race / Aaron L. Friedberg -- Studying Soviet strategies and decisionmaking in the Cold War yeas / Constantine Pleshakov -- Germany in the Cold War: strategies and decisions / Wilfried Loth -- China's strategic culture and Cold War confrontations / Shu Guang Zhang -- Reflections on the origins of the Cold War / Antonio Varsori -- The crisis years, 1958-1963 / James G. Hershberg -- Ironies and turning poins : d�etente in perspective / Jussi M. Hanhim�aki -- Why did the Cold War end in 1989? : explanations of 'the turn' / Vladislav M. Zubok.