and Conflict Management
University of Maryland
0145 Tydings Hall
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 314-7703
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T7
(514) 398-4800
| Introduction: The East/West protracted conflict generated 21 international crises from 1918 to 1989, two in the early interwar years, all the others during the Cold War -- from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989. The cases are as follows:
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| Background: No further background information is available on this protracted conflict. In addition to these direct East/West crises, the U.S. and the USSR and often other members of the two blocs were highly involved, sometimes as crisis actors, in many other international crises since the end of World War II that are classified in other protracted conflicts; for example, Case #133--Korean War II, in the Korea PC; and in two of the most important crises in the Arab/Israel PC, Cases #222--Six Day War and #255--October-Yom Kippur War. As the central PC of the post-World War II era, the East/West protracted conflict spilled over to other PCs and international crises in all regions of the global system. |
| Last Updated: 1/5/2004 |
| Center for International Development and Conflict Management University of Maryland 0145 Tydings Hall College Park, MD 20742 (301) 314-7703 |
Department of Political Science McGill University 855 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T7 (514) 398-4800 |
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