Case Studies in International Security. From the Cold War to the Crisis of the New International Order presents a number of case studies that shaped prevailing security perceptions in world politics during and after the Cold War, framing their analysis in a comparative perspective. Its contributors address U.S. and European views of, and approaches to, the emergence and transformation of the transatlantic system during the Cold War, security discourses and practices in the Middle East, the Far East, and Latin America, and the renewal of the transatlantic relationship in the early 1990s and in the post-Cold War period. The underlying argument of this volume is that, whereas the changes brought about in the structure of the international system by the Cold War's end led to a qualitative shift in security discourses, today's prevailing security conceptions continue to be rooted in the bargains and arrangements that the U.S. and its partners negotiated at the end of World War II and renewed throughout and after the Cold War.

Section 1: The Shaping and Evolution of the Transatlantic System during the Cold War - Alfredo Breccia: The U.N. Charter and the Development of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - Paola Casaburi: The Strategic Prism: Political Warfare and Covert Actions in the U.S. Strategic Doctrines at the Beginning of the Cold War - Lucio Barbetta: The Origins of the Détente: Importance of German Rearmament and Italy's Position (1953-1955) - Fabio Bettanin: A friendly Enmity: Italy in the Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union during the Years of Détente - Section 2: The Middle and the Far East between the United States and Europe: Continuity and Change in Interregional Security - Matteo Pizzigallo: The «Bastion with Clay Feet». Italian Diplomacy and the Baghdad Pact - Paolo Wulzer: On the Origins of the Carter Doctrine: The United States and Persian Gulf security (1979-1980) - Gustavo Cutolo: Japanese Foreign Strategy in the Framework of U.S.-Japan relations (1945-1980) - Oliviero Frattolillo: The Evolving Japan-Europe Security Dialogue. A Survey From the End of Détente to the Post-Bipolar Era - Section 3: Cold War and Cultural Cold War in Latin America - Valerio Giannattasio: «Construir un vinculo efectivo y fructífero entre los pueblos americanos». The cultural exchange programs and their impact on the cultural and political landscape of Chile under President Eisenhower - Michal Zourek: The cultural policy of Czechoslovakia in Uruguay during the Cold War - Davide Borsani: First Europe, then Latin America. The United States, Great Britain and the Falklands War (1982) - Section 4: Euro-Atlantic relations in the Post-Cold War «Order» - Massimo de Leonardis: The Atlantic Alliance between Continuity and Transformation - Gianluca Pastori: NATO's out of Area Role from 9/11 to Operation «Unified Protector» - Luca Ratti: A not so special relationship: the U.S., the UK, and German Unification - Diego Pagliarulo: Testing Ground for World Power. The Persian Gulf and America's Quest for a Post-Cold War Strategy - Paolo Wulzer: Conclusions