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The global Cold War : third world interventions and the making of our times /

The Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States indelibly shaped the world we live in today -- especially international politics, economics, and military affairs. This volume shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the 20th century created the foundations for most of to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Westad, Odd Arne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Edición:First paperback edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 : Iran and Afghanistan
  • The 1980s : The Reagan offensive
  • The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War.