TY - JOUR A1 - Heuser, Beatrice T1 - Wars since 1945. An Introduction T2 - Zeithistorische Forschungen – Studies in Contemporary History N2 - While most Europeans lived through an exceptionally peaceful period of history, termed ‘The Long Peace’ by John Lewis Gaddis,2 the populations of other continents were decidedly less fortunate. What was a ‘Cold War’ for the Europeans was anything but ‘cold’ for the Koreans, Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians, for most Arab peoples, the Afghans, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and Indians, the populations of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea, and of most of Latin America. How, then, can one be so sanguine as to characterise this period as that of a ‘Cold War’ or a ‘long peace’? The reason is that the long-expected Third World War has not (yet?) taken place. It was the prospect of such a Third World War, a ‘total’ and in all probability nuclear war, that attracted the attention of concerned minds in Europe and North America, the cultures that over centuries produced most publications on the subjects of war, strategy, military affairs and international relations. Y1 - 2005 UR - https://zeitgeschichte-digital.de/doks/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2032 UR - https://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2005/4523 VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 4 EP - 16 PB - ZZF – Centre for Contemporary History: Zeithistorische Forschungen CY - Potsdam ER -