TY - BOOK AU - McWilliams,Wayne C. AU - Piotrowski, Harry TI - The world since 1945: a history of international relations SN - 8130904381 U1 - 909.824 PY - 2008/// CY - New Delhi PB - Viva Books Private Limited KW - World politics KW - International relations KW - Military history, Modern KW - Developing countries KW - Economic conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Pt. 1; The Origins of the Cold War; 1; The End of World War II and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age; 2; The Cold War Institutionalized; 3; The Cold War in Asia: A Change of Venue; 4; Confrontation and Coexistence --; Pt. 2; Nationalism and the End of Colonialism; 5; Decolonization in Asia; 6; Decolonization in Africa; 7; The Middle East: The Arab-Israeli Conflict --; Pt. 3; The Shifting Sands of Global Power; 8; The Communist World After Stalin; 9; The War in Indochina; 10; Detente and the End of Bipolarity --; Pt. 4; The Third World; 11; Problems of Economic Development in the Third World; 12; Africa; 13; Latin America; 14; The People's Republic of China and Taiwan; 15; The Indian Subcontintent and Southeast Asia --; Pt. 5; Transition to a New Era; 16; Political Islam and the Middle East; 17; Japan, Korea, and East Asian Economic Development; 18; The Globalization of the Economy; 19; Gorbachev's Perestroika and Its Consequences; 20; The Soviet Union's Retreat from Empire; 21; The Nuclear Arms Race and Nuclear Disarmament; 24; Epilogue: The End of the Postwar Age ER -