This article provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of how the Cold War era has been studied in foreign historiography. The research explores the theoretical and methodological approaches, debates, and scholarly perspectives of various historical schools in an expanded manner. The traditional, revisionist, post-revisionist, and new historical approaches proposed by American and Western European historians at different times are analyzed in detail, and their scholarly and ideological characteristics are presented comparatively. Furthermore, within the framework of the modern concept of global history, the reinterpretation of Cold War history, new methodological approaches, changes in contemporary scientific paradigms, and the main trends in current research are discussed in detail.

Cold War, foreign historiography, revisionism, post-revisionism, international relations, historical schools, global history, methodology, ideology, culture.

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