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The Global Cold War : Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times.
Prize-winning study of the global conflict waged during the Cold War and its legacy today.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
©2007 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Front Matter; Title; Copyrights; Contents; List of illustrations; List of maps; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; The empire of liberty: American ideology and foreign interventions; ''In every contest''; ''Foreigners'' and anti-Communism; Beyond Europe; ''The world as a market''; Modernization, technology, and American globalism; The empire of justice: Soviet ideology and foreign interventions; The Russian empire and its revolutions; The Comintern and the Third World; Defining intervention: Iran, China, Korea; The Soviet rediscovery of the Third World (1955-60).
- The revolutionaries: anticolonial politics and transformationsColonialism and its effects; The anticolonial revolutions; Creating new states; Bandung and the Nonaligned Movement; Creating the Third World: the United States confronts revolution; The United States and the first postcolonial crises; Iran, Suez, and the new American role; The United States and African decolonization; Latin America: Sandino to Castro; The Third World and the Cold War economic system; The Cuban and Vietnamese challenges; The Sino-Soviet split and the Third World; Cuba as revolutionary example.
- Vietnam and Southeast AsiaThe Cold War and superpower détente; The crisis of decolonization: Southern Africa; Southern African liberation and superpower Cold War; The collapse of the Portuguese empire; The Angolan civil war; The Cold War in Africa and the decline of superpower détente; The prospects of socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn; The Ethiopian revolution and its opponents; The emergence of the Soviet-Ethiopian alliance; The Ogaden war; Soviet interventionism and the collapse of détente; The Islamist defiance: Iran and Afghanistan; The Iranian revolution and the Cold War.
- The Soviet Union and the Afghan revolutionThe civil war and the split in Afghan Communism; The Soviet decision to intervene; The Islamist response; The 1980s: the Reagan offensive; Third World fragmentation and the origins of the Reagan offensive; The war in Nicaragua; The war in Afghanistan; The United States and the jihad; Aid, trade, and ideology; The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War; Gorbachev's offensive; Out of Afghanistan; The causes of the Soviet withdrawal; The end of the Third World; Conclusion: Revolutions, interventions, and great power collapse; Notes.
- IntroductionThe empire of liberty: American ideology and foreign interventions; The empire of justice: Soviet ideology and foreign interventions; The revolutionaries: anticolonial 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: Iran and Afghanistan; The 1980s: the Reagan offensive; The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War.