Perspectives on The Cold War after Stalin's Death: A Missed Opportunity for Peace?

This forum, with commentaries by three prominent experts on international affairs and East-West relations during the Cold War—Robert L. Jervis, Thomas Maddux, and Bernd Greiner—focuses on the eighth volume in the Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, The Cold War after Stalin's Death: A Missed Opportunity for Peace? edited by Klaus Larres and Kenneth Osgood. The book, published in late 2006, consists of chapters by fifteen scholars, including several from outside the United States, who focus on the impact of Josif Stalin's death on the Cold War. The three reviewers offer their perspectives on the book and assess its contribution to the literature on the Cold War in the 1950s and after.