World politics since 1945
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World politics since 1945
Longman, 1991
6th ed.
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Includes index
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The seventh edition of this enormously successful standard work now covers fifty years, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of world history since the end of the Second World War. The main additions to this edition encompass the immediate aftermath following the disintegration of the Soviet empire in Europe, and the Soviet Union itself; the convulsive collapse of the Yugoslav federation; the gulf War against Iraq and its various sequels; the Maastricht Treaty for the furthering of the European Union; the tensions in China between economic liberalisation and the stringencies of communism in the shadow of Deng Xiaoping's prolonged rule from the edge of the grave. It also covers mixed fortunes in Africa from optimism in South Africa to grimness or worse in Nigeria, Somalia, Rwanda and Liberia. Internationalism is covered generally, including issues relating to the UN and GATT.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 World powers: the superpowers
- Japan
- China
- world order
- a Third World - and a fourth. Part 2 Europe: Western Europe
- Communist Europe. Part 3 The Middle East: the Arabs and Israel to the Suez War
- from Suez to the death of Nasser
- focus on Lebanon
- Gulf wars
- the Arabian peninsula. Part 4 Asia: the Indian sub-continent
- Afghanistan
- Sri Lanka
- Burma
- Indo-China
- South-east Asia. Part 5 Africa: North Africa
- West Africa
- from Congo to Zaire
- East Africa
- Africa's deep south
- Russians, Cubans, Chinese. Part 6 America: Canada
- South America
- Mexico and Central America
- Cuba and the Caribbean.
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