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Wars in the Third World since 1945 /

"With nuclear stalemate holding the superpowers in check during the Cold War, violence proliferated in the Third World. Sometimes this took the form of colonial liberation wars as the old European empires disintegrated after the Second World War (Algeria 1954-1962 or Kenya 1952-1959); sometimes...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arnold, Guy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Colección:Bloomsbury academic collections. History and politics in the 20th century : conflict.
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Bibliographical note; PART I Colonial liberation wars; Introduction; AFRICA; Algeria: the independence struggle; Angola: the liberation struggle; Cameroon: radical opposition revolt; Cape Verde: the independence struggle; Egypt: the end of British 'control'; Ethiopia: three colonial wars; Guinea-Bissau: war of liberation against Portugal; Kenya: Mau Mauuprising; Madagascar: nationalist revolt; Mozambique: war of liberation against Portugal; Namibia: the independence struggle; Tunisia: an end to colonialism 1952-1962.
  • Western Sahara: desert warZimbabwe: war of independence; THE MIDDLE EAST; Cyprus: enosis, independence, communal strife; The Kurds: an endless war; Oman: British trucial obligations; Aden: outpost of empire; ASIA AND THE PACIFIC; Brunei: rebellion 1962-1963; Indonesia: the independence struggle; Malaya: the Communist emergency 1948-1960; New Caledonia: settler colonialism; Vanuatu: a small disturbance; THE AMERICAS; Anguilla: comic opera; The Falklands War; PART II Big power intervention wars; Introduction; AFRICA; Central African Republic 1979; Gabon: a French military base.
  • The East African army mutinies 1964Libya: an American attack; ASIA; Afghanistan: strategy versus Islam; Korea 1950-1953: Cold War pawns; Vietnam: the thirty years' war; THE AMERICAS; Cuba: a very close thing; The Dominican Republic: American intervention; Grenada: mini-state revolution and US intervention; Panama: exit Noriega; PART III Border wars and wars between Third World countries; Introduction; AFRICA; Burkina Faso: the five-day war, December 1985; Chad: Civil wars and Libyan expansionism; Guinea: a mini-invasion; Kenya-Somalia: the Shifta war; The Ogaden war 1977-1978.
  • The Seychelles: a botched coupSouth Africa: destabilizing its neighbours; Tanzania and Uganda: the fall of Amin 1978-1979; Zaire: the two Shaba wars 1977 and 1978; THE MIDDLE EAST; The Gulf War: Iran and Iraq 1980-1988; North Yemen and South Yemen: border wars; ASIA; China: adjustment wars in Tibet, India and Vietnam 1950-1989; India-Pakistan: wars 1948,1965 and 1971; Indonesia: confrontation with Malaysia 1963-1966; Kampuchea/Cambodia: border war, civil war, Vietnam invasion; THE AMERICAS; Costa Rica: the Nicaragua war; El Salvador-Honduras: the Soccer War 1969.
  • Honduras: the USA and Contra basesPART IV Israel and its neighbours; Introduction; The Suez War 1956; The Six Day War 1967; The Yom Kippur War 1973; Jordan: the Palestinian uprising 1970; The Israeli invasion of Lebanon 1982; Syria and Lebanon: the 1976 invasion and its aftermath; PART V Civil wars: ideological; Introduction; AFRICA; The Angolan civil war 1975-1990 (ongoing); Burundi: civil war by massacre; The Gambia: coup attempt, Senegal to the rescue; Lesotho: from coup to civil strife; Liberia: tribal civil war 1990; Mozambique: the war against Renamo; The Nigerian civil war 1967-1970.