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100 1 $aStueck, William Whitney,$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80023259
245 14 $aThe Korean War :$ban international history /$cWilliam Stueck.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c1995.
263 $a9509
300 $axii, 484 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aPrinceton studies in international history and politics
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references ( p. [447-468) and index.
520 $aThis first truly international history of the Korean War argues that its timing, its course, and its outcome made it in effect a substitute for World War III. Stueck draws on recently available materials from seven countries, plus the archives of the United Nations, presenting a detailed narrative of the diplomacy of the conflict and a broad assessment of its critical role in the Cold War.
520 8 $aIn Stueck's view, contributors to the UN cause in Korea provided support not out of any abstract commitment to a universal system of collective security but because they saw an opportunity to influence U.S. policy. At the moment of Chinese intervention in Korea in the fall of 1950, as in other instances prior to the armistice in July 1953, NATO allies and Third World neutrals succeeded in curbing American adventurism and so in blocking the spread of hostilities to other parts of the world.
520 8 $aWhile conceding the tragic and brutal nature of the war, Stueck suggests that it helped to prevent the occurrence of an even more destructive conflict in Europe.
650 0 $aKorean War, 1950-1953.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073117
650 0 $aKorean War, 1950-1953$xDiplomatic history.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073126
830 0 $aPrinceton studies in international history and politics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90704907
852 00 $bglx$hDS918$i.S819 1995
852 00 $bbar$hDS918$i.S819 1995