Calvocoressi, Peter <br/><br/>
World Politics Since 1945 

 - 9th ed. 
 - Harlow:  Pearson,  2009. 
 - xii, 843p.  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>World Politics Since 1945 Peter Calvocoressi <br/>Table of Contents <br/>List of Maps<br/>Acknowledgements<br/>Introduction <br/>PART ONE: THE COLD WAR <br/>1 The Cold War Beginnings The division of Germany Nato and the Soviet empire to the Cuban crisis The arms race The perplexities of the United States The disintegration of the USSR The limits of superpower <br/>PART TWO: THE FAR EAST <br/>2 Japan <br/>3 China The triumph of Mao China and the superpowers Resurrection Xinjiang and Tibet <br/>4 Korea <br/>PART THREE: EUROPE REMODELLED <br/>5 Western Europe Recovery Franco-German entente Britain on the edge European Union (west) European Union (east - west) The southern flank <br/>6 Central and eastern Europe Stalin's empire After Stalin End of empire <br/>7 Yugoslavia and Albania Federated Yugoslavia Dissolution: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Partition: Bosnia-Herzegovina Kosovo Macedonia and Albania Notes A Northern Ireland B The Basques C Cyprus <br/>PART FOUR: THE MIDDLE EAST <br/>8 Islam <br/>9 Turkey <br/>10 The Arabs and Israel to the Suez War The creation of Israel Arab revolutions The Suez War <br/>11 From Suez to the death of Nasser Reassessments The decline of Nasser and the Six-Day War <br/>12 The destruction of Lebanon The Yom Kippur War Civil war Camp David Israel's invasion of Lebanon <br/>13 Towards a Palestinian State King Hussein's diplomacy Israel's dilemma <br/>14 Iran and Gulf Wars Oil and nationalism The shah and the ayatollah Saddam Hussein Kuwait and the Gulf War The destruction of Iraq <br/>15 The Arabian Peninsula The Saudi kingdom The southern fringe Britain and the Persian Gulf Notes A The Kurds B The Shi'ites C Sectarian violence <br/>PART FIVE: SOUTH ASIA <br/>16 The Indian subcontinent The first partition Northern borders: Tibet, Kashmir, the Himalayan states The second partition 17 The Indo-Chinese peninsula <br/>18 South-east Asia and ASEAN <br/>19 Afghanistan Notes A Central Asia B Sri Lanka PART SIX: AFRICA <br/>20 General <br/>21 North Africa The Maghrib Libya and Chad <br/>22 West Africa Independence The coastal loop from Senegal to Benin Landlocked: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger Nigeria <br/>23 Central Africa Congo-Zaire-Congo Rwanda and Burundi West Central Africa <br/>24 East Africa Sudan Darfur The Horn Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya 25 Africa's deep south The legacy of Cecil Rhodes Mozambique-Angola-Namibia South Africa <br/>26 Russians, Cubans, Chinese Notes A The Malagasy Republic and the Indian Ocean B Botswana, Lesotho, Ngwane C The Homelands or Bantustans <br/>PART SEVEN: LATIN AMERICA <br/>27 South America General <br/>28 Central America <br/>29 Cuba and the Caribbean Note Guyana and Surinam <br/>PART EIGHT: WORLD ORDER <br/>30 World Order Preventing wars Preventing economic disasters Neutralism and realignment Poverty <br/>Notes A Canada <br/>B Very small states <br/>C The Poles <br/>D The law of the sea <br/>APPENDIX: THE SOVEREIGN STATE <br/>Index 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781405899383 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>World politics<br/>Diplomacy
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>909.82  / CAL/W