International relations since 1945 a global history

International Relations Since 1945: A Global History is an authoritative and historical analysis of international relations during the Cold War and its aftermath. In one volume, it both describes and interprets events since 1945 for an undergraduate audience. Exploring how the Cold War affected worl...

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Main Authors: Young, John W. 1957- (Author), Kent, John 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2004
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Table of Contents:
  • pt.1. The Origins and Development of the Cold War, 1945-1953
  • Tensions in the Grand Alliance and the Growing Confrontation, 1945-1947
  • Two Worlds East and West, 1945-1948
  • Empire, Cold War, Decolonization, 1945-1953
  • The Cold War Intensifies: Containment Superseded, 1948-1953
  • pt.2. Cold War: Crises and Change, 1953-1963
  • Soviet-American Relatopms: Avoiding Hot War and the Search for Stability
  • Maintaining the Spheres of Influence
  • Fighting the Cold War: the Offensive Strategies
  • Collapsing Empires: The Cold War Battle for Hearts and Minds, 1953-1963
  • pt.3. The Cold War of Peaceful Coexistence and the Rise of Multipolarity, 1963-1971
  • The Eastern and Western Blocs in the 1960s
  • The Vietnam War
  • Other Regional Conflicts
  • pt.4. The Detente Era, 1972-1980
  • An Era of Negotiations, 1972-1973
  • 'Stagflation" and the Trials of Detente, 1973-1976
  • Detente in Decline, 1977-1979
  • The Return of Confrontation, 1979-1980
  • pt.5. From Confrontation to Communist Collapse, 1981-1989
  • The 'Second' Cold War, 1981-1985
  • Middle East Conflicts in the 1980s
  • Instability in Latin America
  • The Decline of the Cold War, 1985-1989
  • pt.6. The Post-Cold War World, 1990-2000
  • Europe and the Former Soviet Union
  • US Predominance and the Search for the Post-Cold War Order
  • Stability and Instability in the Developing World