Eldre tolkninger:
Herbert Feis, From Trust to Terror: The Onset of the Cold War, 1945-1950 (ca. 70 sider).
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Origins of the Cold War, i Foreign Affairs, Oct. 1967: 22-52
William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (ca. 70 sider)
Joyce and Gabriel Kolko, The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1954 (ca. 70 sider)
Realisme og post-revisjonisme:
John Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (ca. 70 sider)
Melvyn P. Leffler, A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War (ca. 70 sider)
Nyere tolkninger:
John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (ca. 100 sider)
Odd Arne Westad, Reviewing the Cold War (380 sider)
Richard Ned Lebow, We Still Dont Know, DH, 1998:627-632
Nigel Gould-Davies, Rethinking the Role of Ideology in International Politics during the Cold War, JCWS, 1999:90-109
Silvio Pons, Stalin, Togliatti, and the Origins of the Cold War in Europe, JCWS, 2001:3-27
Anita Prazmowska, The 1946 Kielce Pogrom and the Emergence of Communist Power in Poland, CWH, 2002:101-124
Kathleen A. Tobin, The Reduction of Urban Vulnerability: Revisiting 1950s American Suburbanization as Civil Defence, CWH, 2002: 1-32
Tony Smith, New Bottles for New Wine: A Pericenric Framework for the Study of the Cold War, DH, 2000: 567-591
O. A. Westad, The New International History of the Cold War: Three (Possible) Paradigms, DH, 2000: 551-565