This is an invaluable and authoritative guide through the complexities of contemporary international politics. It covers the disintegration of the Soviet Empire, collapse of yugoslavia, the wars in bosnia and Kosovo, the Gulf War the Maastricht Treaty, the tensions in China between economic liberalization and the stringencies of communism, mixed fortunes in Africa—from South Africa, Ghana and Angola to nigeria, Somalia, Rwanda and Liberia. There are numerous biographical assessments of key figures now including Deng, Khomeini, Mitterand, Thatcher and Reagan.
Salient Features An easily accessible and complete one volume reference covering the fast changing world of politics since World War II. * "The book compels admiration for its thoroughness, its scope, the masterly ordering of its immense material"---The Sunday Times, London. * "The most lucid, comprehensive, intelligent, and reliable account of post-war modern history on the market"---Teaching Politics, on an earlier edition. * Updated to include the convulsive collapse of the former Yugoslavia and the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, the furthering of the European Union, mixed fortunes in Africa and the transfer of Hong Kong.
Table of Contents PART I: WORLD POWER AND WORLD ORDER * The Superpowers, The Onset of the Cold War, The Division of Germany, NATO and the Soviet Empire to the Cuban Crisis, The Arms Race, The United States - Unique but Not Omnipotent, The Disintegration of the USSR. * Japan. * China, The triumph of Mao, China and the Superpowers, Resurrection, Xinjiang and Tibet. * World Order, Preventing Wars, Preventing Economic Disasters. * A Third World - and a Fourth, Neutralism and Realignments, Poverty.
PART II: EUROPE * Western Europe, Recovery, Franco-German Entente, Britain on the edge, European Union (west), European Union (east-west), The Southern Flank. * Central and Eastern Europe, Stalin's Empire, After Stalin, End of Empire. * Yugoslavia and Albania, Federated Yugoslavia, Dissolution: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Partition: Bosnia-Hercegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania.
PART III: THE MIDDLE EAST * The Arabs and Israel to the Suez War, The Creation of Israel, Arab revolutions, The Suez War. * From Suez to the death of Nasser, Reassessments, The Decline of Nasser and the Six-Day War. * The Destruction of Lebanon, The Yom Kippur War, Civil war, Camp David , Israel's Invasion. * Towards a Palestinian State, King Hussein's Diplomacy, Israel's Dilemma. * Iran and Gulf Wars, Oil and Nationalism, The Shah and the Ayatollah, Saddam Hussein, Kuwait and the Gulf War. * The Arabian Peninsula, The Saudi Kingdom, The Southern Fringe, Britain and the Persian Gulf
PART IV: ASIA * The Indian Sub-continent, The first Partition, Northern Bordering: Tibet, Kashmir, The Himalayan States, The Second Partition. * The Indo-Chinese Peninsula. * South-east Asia and ASEAN. * Afghanistan. * Korea
PART V: AFRICA * North Africa, The Maghrib, Libya and Chad. * West Africa, Independence, The Coastal Loop From Senegal to Benin, Landlocked: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger , Nigeria. * Central Africa, Congo - Zaire - Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, West Central Africa. * East Africa, Sudan, The Horn, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya. * Africa' s Deep South, The legacy of Cecil Rhodes, Mozambique: Angola: Namibia, South Africa. * Russians, Cubans, Chinese
PART VI: AMERICA * Canada. * South America. * Mexico and Central America. * Cuba and the Caribbean.
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