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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2020

Lorenz M. Lüthi
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McGill University, Montréal
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Almost a decade ago, when I attended a performance of Richard Wagner’s opera Die Walküre in Berlin, the narrative structure of this book emerged before my eyes. Wagner’s idea of a network of stories that intersect and influence each other has fascinated me since the early 1990s when I first saw the complete performance of his four-part operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. Its second part, Die Walküre, sparked my vision of writing a reinterpretation of the Cold War as an interconnected set of narratives that focuses on how middle and smaller actors at the regional level shaped that global conflict.

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Cold Wars
Asia, the Middle East, Europe
, pp. 1 - 12
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Introduction
  • Lorenz M. Lüthi, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book: Cold Wars
  • Online publication: 19 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108289825.001
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  • Introduction
  • Lorenz M. Lüthi, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book: Cold Wars
  • Online publication: 19 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108289825.001
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  • Introduction
  • Lorenz M. Lüthi, McGill University, Montréal
  • Book: Cold Wars
  • Online publication: 19 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108289825.001
Available formats
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