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World politics since 1945 / Peter Calvocoressi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calvocoressi, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World politics--1945-1989.
- World politics.
- World politics--1989-.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 843 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Ninth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2009.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Cold War
- 1 The Cold War 1
- Beginnings 3
- The division of Germany 13
- NATO and the Soviet empire to the Cuban crisis 18
- The arms race 30
- The perplexities of the United States 52
- The disintegration of the USSR 65
- The limits of superpower 83
- Part 2 The Far East 93
- 2 Japan 95
- 3 China 108
- The triumph of Mao 108
- China and the superpowers 116
- Resurrection 132
- Xinjiang and Tibet 145
- 4 Korea 149
- Part 3 Europe remodelled 155
- 5 Western Europe 157
- Recovery 157
- Franco-German entente 169
- Britain on the edge 174
- European Union (west) 181
- European Union (east-west) 198
- The southern flank 206
- 6 Central and eastern Europe 224
- Stalin's empire 224
- After Stalin 234
- End of empire 247
- 7 Yugoslavia and Albania 262
- Federated Yugoslavia 262
- Dissolution: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes 266
- Partition: Bosnia-Herzegovina 271
- Kosovo 278
- Macedonia and Albania 282
- A Northern Ireland 286
- B The Basques 295
- C Cyprus 296
- Part 4 The Middle East 305
- 8 Islam 307
- 9 Turkey 309
- 10 The Arabs and Israel to the Suez War 315
- The creation of Israel 317
- Arab revolutions 323
- The Suez War 328
- 11 From Suez to the death of Nasser 335
- Reassessments 335
- The decline of Nasser and the Six-Day War 338
- 12 The destruction of Lebanon 346
- The Yom Kippur War 347
- Civil war 351
- Camp David 354
- Israel's invasion of Lebanon 358
- 13 Towards a Palestinian state 364
- King Hussein's diplomacy 364
- Israel's dilemma 367
- 14 Iran and Gulf Wars 376
- Oil and nationalism 377
- The shah and the ayatollah 381
- Saddam Hussein 387
- Kuwait and the Gulf War 390
- The destruction of Iraq 401
- 15 The Arabian peninsula 405
- The Saudi kingdom 405
- The southern fringe 410
- Britain and the Persian Gulf 413
- A The Kurds 417
- B The Shi'ites 420
- C Sectarian violence 420
- Part 5 South Asia 425
- 16 The Indian sub-continent 427
- The first partition 428
- Northern borders: Tibet, Kashmir, the Himalayan states 433
- The second partition 441
- 17 The Indo-Chinese peninsula 454
- 18 South-east Asia and ASEAN 471
- 19 Afghanistan 493
- A Central Asia 499
- B Sri Lanka 500
- Part 6 Africa 505
- 21 North Africa 509
- The Maghrib 509
- Libya and Chad 520
- 22 West Africa 525
- Independence 525
- The coastal loop from Senegal to Benin 532
- Landlocked: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger 542
- Nigeria 543
- 23 Central Africa 553
- Congo-Zaire-Congo 553
- Rwanda and Burundi 566
- West Central Africa 568
- 24 East Africa 571
- Sudan 571
- Darfur 576
- The Horn 577
- Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya 584
- 25 Africa's deep south 596
- The legacy of Cecil Rhodes 596
- Mozambique-Angola-Namibia 613
- South Africa 621
- 26 Russians, Cubans, Chinese 645
- A The Malagasy Republic and the Indian Ocean 661
- B Botswana, Lesotho, Ngwane 663
- C The Homelands or Bantustans 665
- Part 7 Latin America 667
- 27 South America 669
- 28 Central America 706
- 29 Cuba and the Caribbean 721
- Guyana and Surinam 735
- Part 8 World order 737
- 30 World order 739
- Preventing wars 739
- Preventing economic disasters 759
- Neutralism and realignment 767
- Poverty 778
- A Canada 788
- B Very small states 793
- C The Poles 797
- D The law of the sea 797
- Appendix The sovereign state 800.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: World politics, 1945-2000.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781405899383
- 1405899387
- OCLC:
- 237194339
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