Isaac And Bell's Uncertain Empire

Isaac and Bell focus on the search for understanding the meaning of the cold war, questioning the reason for the peculiar naming of such event. The chosen words such as “cold” are general in a sense to understand the situation. The term used in the book Uncertain Empire: American History and the ideas of the Cold War calls cold as a descriptive word to understand the Soviet Union itself and the temperament between the Soviet Union and the United States. The word war used loosely to illustrate the gravity that is taken place; however, there were no major physical calamities between the two nations. Furthermore, to Isaac and Bell’s understanding, the cold war was about the restructuring of a third class society, or rather world, in some respect. Isaac and Bell did in fact involved other historians’ ideas and methodologies in respect to the author, Isaac, and Bell did not agree or partially agreed to some of the others findings of their vantage points such as: Anders Stephanson; Odd Arne Westad; Philip Mirowski; Steven …show more content…
In some respect, the thought of two superpowers struggling for expansion does make sense. However, Isaac and Bell dwell on this thought as well, but in words by Odd Arne Westad, the comparison between the Soviet Union and the United States in the sheer military and economic strength are unbalanced; therefore, categorizing the Soviet Union as a superpower with the United States was not accurate to portray the Cold War. Instead, The United States feared of the Soviet Union through the difference of ideology, the spread of a different political ideology was what the United States feared most; thus, the containment approach was the step taken by the United