The Human Factor

Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, examines how three leaders shaped the end of the Cold War. The book focuses on Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and considers how their personal choices and convictions affected a rivalry that had long seemed fixed.

Its subject is the political history of the late twentieth century, and it is written for students and general readers interested in international relations and the Cold War.