The global Cold War

Cambridge University Press

2005

xiv, 484 pages

9780521853644

Introduction The empire of liberty: American ideology and foreign interventions The empire of justice: Soviet ideology and foreign interventions The revolutionaries: anti-colonial politics and transformations Creating the Third World: the United States confronts revolution The Cuban and Vietnamese challenges The crisis of decolonization: Southern Africa The prospects of socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn The Islamist defiance; 9. The 1980s: the Reagan offensive The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War Conclusion: Revolutions, interventions and Great Power collapse

The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalisation of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror

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