In this book, some of Philip Towle's major contributions are brought together to shed light on the Cold War and its aftermath.

Philip Towle is a retired Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge and a former Director of the Cambridge Centre of International Studies. Before Cambridge he held posts at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Australian National University. He is the author or editor of 14 books and 37 chapters in other publications. His books include Arms Control and East-West Relations (1982), Enforced Disarmament (1997), Democracy and Peacemaking (2000), Going to War (2009), History, Empathy and Conflict (2018).

Introduction Part 1 1. Culture and Intervention 2. Politics and Religion 3. The Strategy of War by Proxy 4. Should the West Arm Guerrillas? 5. The British Debate about Intervention in Yugoslavia 6. Forecasting the Outcome of the Gulf War 7. The PGM Revolution in Weaponry Part 2 Introduction 8. Blackett and Nuclear weapons 9. Winston Churchill and British Disarmament Policy 10. Arms Control and declining Powers 11. The Soviet Union and the Biological Weapons Convention 12. Autocrats and MDW 13. Forced Disarmament Without War 14. Minimum Deterrence and Democratic Verification Conclusion