| Description |
xii, 593 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue: the Second World War and its consequences -- 1. The Second World War and its consequences -- 2. The beginnings of the post-war world -- Part I: 1945-1962. The cold war. 3.The antagonists -- 4. The beginning of the Cold War, 1: From Potsdam to the Marshall plan, 1945-1947 -- 5. The beginning of the Cold War, 2: The Prague coup to the North Atlantic treaty, 1948-1949 -- 6. The Cold War: Korea to Hungary, 1949-1956 -- 7. The Cold War: Berlin to Cuba, 1957-1962 -- Reflection: the Cold War in its early phases. decolonization and wars of succession, 1945-1962. 8. The Middle East, 1945-1962 -- 9. Transformation in Asia, 1945-1962 -- 10. The new Africa, 1945-1962 -- 11. The Bandung Conference, 1955: the Afro-Asian movement and non-alignment -- Reflection: the Third World. Part II: From 1963 to the End of the Cold War. Cold war, second phase: Detente, renewal and the end. 12. The Cold War and Detente, 1963-1969 -- 13. The high tide of Detente, 1969-1975 -- 14. The end of Detente, 1976-1980 -- Reflection: the essence of Detente. 15. Renewed Cold War, 1980-1985 -- 16. Gorbachev and Reagan, 1985-1988: transformation scene -- 17. Three years that shook the world, 1989-1991 -- Reflection: The Cold War in retrospect -- The world outside the cold war. 18. The Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1963-1979 -- 19. The two oil shocks: Middle East, 1973-1974, Iran, 1979-1980 -- 20. The rise of Asia, c.1962-1990 -- 21. The fate of Africa, c.1962-1990 -- 22. Latin America in the world, 1945-1990 -- Part III: The conduct and motivation of international affairs. 23. The conduct of international affairs -- 24. Motivation: Why do states and people act as they do? -- Postscript: the world since the Cold War: new order and old chaos |
| Summary |
A synthesis of the contemporary international history of the world |
| Notes |
Co-published in the US by Oxford University Press |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 566-575) and index |
| Subject |
History, Modern -- 1989-
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History, Modern -- 1945-1989.
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| Genre/Form |
Weltgeschichte 1945-2000
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| LC no. |
2001273453 |
| ISBN |
9780340662366 |
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0340662352 |
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0340662360 (paperback) |
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