The project also encourages scholars and students to apply insights gained from research to current discourses pertaining to areas of international and domestic politics.
The overarching theme of these lessons is realizing that direct military confrontation was avoided, despite the occurrence of critical situations and dilemmas.
[1][2][3] Conduits for disseminating knowledge derived from these efforts are accessible declassified documents via the internet, the Ethnic Conflict and Nationalist Unrest project, the nuclear weapons history exhibit (also available online), highlighting cold war subject areas (also available online), and the aforementioned Journal of Cold War Studies.
Another conduit is the aforementioned Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series consisting of eight volumes as of 2006, while several more are being edited or are in production (2006).
The evidence is applied to determine the validity of theoretical concepts composed during the cold war as a result of events during that time period.