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• Footnotes to History: Selected Speeches And Writings Of Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., Founder of The School of Foreign Service (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1990), by Edmund A. Walsh, ed. by Anna Watkins (PDF at Georgetown)
• Détente in Europe: The Soviet Union and the West Since 1953 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), by John Van Oudenaren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deterrence by Denial and Punishment (research monograph #1; Princeton: Woodrow Wilson school of Public and International Affairs, Center of International Studies, Princeton University, 1959), by Glenn H. Snyder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why Not Victory? A Fresh Look at American Foreign Policy (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1962), by Barry M. Goldwater
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The American People Want Peace: A Survey of Public Opinion (New York: S. R. T. Publications, 1955), by Jessica Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wars of the Third Kind: Conflict in Underdeveloped Countries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Edward E. Rice (HTML at UC Press)
• Khrushchev in New York: A Documentary Record of Nikita S. Khrushchev's Trip to New York, September 19th to October 13th, 1960 (New York: Crosscurrents Press, 1960), by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (multiple formats at archive.org)

• I. F. Stone's Weekly, by I. F. Stone (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (partial serial archives)

• On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946 to 1961 (Washington: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1999), ed. by Donald P. Steury (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Report to the National Security Council by the Executive Secretary, on United States Objectives and Programs for National Security, April 14, 1950 (declassified copy of NSC 68, released 1975), ed. by James S. Lay (PDF at trumanlibrary.org)
• Assessing the Soviet Threat: The Early Cold War Years, ed. by Woodrow J. Kuhns (HTML and PDF files at webharvest.gov)
• At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991, ed. by Benjamin B. Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)

• ANZUS and the Early Cold War: Strategy and Diplomacy Between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, 1945-1956 (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Andrew Kelly (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• American Labour's Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Détente, 1945-1970 (Edmonton; AU Press, c2018), by Anthony Carew (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual-Use Anthropology (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2016), by David H. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communism: The Ideology Fades, the Threat Remains (1990), by Americanism Educational League (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Early Cold War Overflights, 1950-1956: Symposium Proceedings (2 volumes; Washington: Office of the Historian, Naval Reconaissance Office, 2003), ed. by R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Cryptology During the Cold War, 1945-1989 (4 volumes; declassified redacted version, published 1995-1999), by Thomas R. Johnson
  • Book 1 (1945-1960): PDF at nsa.gov
  • Book 2 (1960-1972): PDF at nsa.gov
  • Book 3 (1972-1980): PDF at nsa.gov
  • Book 4 (1981-1989): PDF at nsa.gov
• The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1999), by David L. Snead (PDF at Ohio State)
• The World's Dilemma and A Way Out: Liberation of the Peoples of the Soviet Union (ca. 1953), by American Committee for Liberation From Bolshevism (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Measures Short of War: The George F. Kennan Lectures at the National War College, 1946-47, by George F. Kennan, ed. by Giles D. Harlow and George C. Maerz (PDF files at ndu.edu)

• The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021), by Theodora Dragostinova (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America's Half-Century Encounter with Nuclear Weapons (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Paul S. Boyer (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Game of Death: Effects of the Cold War on Our Children (New York: Cameron and Kahn, 1953), by Albert Eugene Kahn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Queering Cold War Poetry: Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Eric Keenaghan (PDF at Ohio State)

• Will the "Titanic" Sink Again? (Miami: Truth About Cuba Committee, 1970), by Luis V. Manrara (page images at Miami)
• Communist Methodology of Conquest (Miami: Dist. by Truth About Cuba Committee, ca. 1966), by Luis V. Manrara (page images at Miami)
• "Freedom is the Exception": Three Lectures on the Values of the Open Society (1965), by William C. Sullivan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Soviet Active Measures: The 12th World Youth Festival in Moscow. (foreign affairs note; 1985), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Role of Cuba in International Terrorism and Subversion: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Seventh Congress, Second Session (Washington: GPO, 1982), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Role of the Soviet Union, Cuba, and East Germany in Fomenting Terrorism in Southern Africa: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Seventh Congress, Second Session (2 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1982), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Party Building and Political Leadership (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by William Z. Foster, Alex Bittelman, James W. Ford, and Charles Krumbein
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at flvc.org
• Soviet, East German, and Cuban Involvement in Fomenting Terrorism in Southern Africa: Report of the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism to the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session (Washington: GPO, 1982), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brain-Washing: Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics (with Goff introduction, and Hubbard terminology in main text; ca. 1956), contrib. by L. Ron Hubbard and Kenneth Goff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brain-Washing: Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics, contrib. by L. Ron Hubbard (HTML and PDF with commentary at xenu-directory.net)

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• Nuclear Reactions: How Nuclear-Armed States Behave (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Mark Bell
  • HTML at Project MUSE
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
• Handbook of War Studies II (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), ed. by Manus I. Midlarsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• International Relations: The World Community in Transition (second edition; Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1957), by Norman D. Palmer and Howard Cecil Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia Política y Diplomática, Desde la Independencia de los Estados Unidos Hasta Nuestros Dias (1776-1895) (in Spanish; Madrid: A. Romero, 1897), by Jerónimo Bécker
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The World's Highway: Some Notes on America's Relation to Sea Power and Non-Military Sanctions for the Law of Nations (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1915), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Myth of the Good and Bad Nations (Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1954), by René A. Wormser, contrib. by Raymond Moley (page images at HathiTrust)
• World Communism and U. S. Foreign Policy: A Comparison of Marxist Strategy and Tactics after World War I, and World War II (New York: The author, 1948), by Earl Browder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Balance of Tomorrow (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1945), by Robert Strausz-Hupé (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-Sen: An Exposition of the Sun Min Chu I (reprint of a 1936 thesis; Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1973), by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, contrib. by Arthur N. Holcombe (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• The Struggle for World Order (Headline Books #32; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1941), by Vera Micheles Dean, illust. by Graphic Associates (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Theses of the Communist League of Struggle (1935), by Communist League of Struggle (HTML at weisbord.org)
• The Coming Caesars (New York, Coward-McCann, c1957), by Amaury De Riencourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy, 1783-1919 (3 volumes; New York: Macmillan, 1922-1923), ed. by Adolphus William Ward and G. P. Gooch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pan-Europa (in German; Vienna: Pan-Europa Verlag, 1923), by Richard Nicolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Serbian's Vision of America (1921), by Nikolaj Velimirović, ed. by Hamilton Fish Armstrong
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War (1916), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• The Winding-Up of the Versailles Treaty: Report to the IV. Congress of the Communist International (1922), by Karl Radek (HTML at marxists.org)
• Mainsprings of World Politics (Headline series #42; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1943), by Brooks Emeny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peace in Party Platforms (Headline Books #4; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1936), by William T. Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• War Drums and Peace Plans (Headline Books #6; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1936), by Raymond Leslie Buell and Ryllis Alexander Goslin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stalinist Corruption of Marxism: A Study in Machiavellian Duplicity (new enlarged edition; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1953), by Arnold Petersen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development Cooperation in a Fractured Global Order: An Arduous Transition, by Francisco R. Sagasti and Gonzalo Alcade (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• The Expansion of Europe: The Culmination of Modern History (second edition, 1917), by Ramsay Muir (Gutenberg text)
• Kalos: What is to be Done With Our World?, by Alfred De Grazia (HTML at grazian-archive.com)
• Programme of the World Revolution (Glasgow: Socialist Labour Press, 1920), by Nikolaĭ Bukharin (multiple formats at archive.org)

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