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Klappentext International Relations since 1945 offers undergraduate students a comprehensive and accessible introduction to global political history since World War II. Clearly structured, and with a balance of description and analysis, the text is also supported by a range of helpful learning features and an accompanying website. Zusammenfassung International Relations since 1945 offers undergraduate students a comprehensive and accessible introduction to global political history since World War II. Clearly structured! and with a balance of description and analysis! the text is also supported by a range of helpful learning features and an accompanying website. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I; The Origins and Development of the Cold War 1945-53; Introduction; 1 Tensions in the Grand Alliance and the Growing Confrontation, 1945-47; 2 Two Worlds East and West, 1945-48; 3 Empire, Cold War, and Decolonisation, 1945-53; 4 The Cold War Intensifies: Containment Superseded, 1948-53; Part II; Cold War: Crises and Change, 1953-63; Introduction; 5 Soviet-American Relations: Avoiding Hot Water and the Search for Stability; 6 Maintaining the Spheres of Influence; 7 Fighting the Cold War: The Offensive Strategies; 8 Collapsing Empires: The Cold War Battle for Hearts and Minds, 1953-63; Part III; The Cold War of Peaceful Co-Existence and the Rise of Multipolarity, 1963-71; Introduction; 9 The Eastern and Western Blocs in the 1960s; 10 The Vietnam War; 11 Other Regional Conflicts; Part IV; The Detente Era, 1972-80; Introduction; 12 An Era of Negotiations, 1972-73; 13 Stagflation and the Trials of Detente, 1973-76; 14 Detente in Decline, 1977-79; 15 The Return to Confrontation, 1979-80; Part V; From Confrontation to Communist Collapse, 1981-89; Introduction; 16 The 'Second' Cold War, 1981-85; 17 Middle East Conflicts in the 1980s; 18 Instability in Latin America; 19 The Decline of the Cold War, 1985-89; Part VI; The Post-Cold War World, 1990-2001; Introduction; 20 Europe and the Former Soviet Union; 21 US Predominance and the Search for a Post-Cold War Order; 22 Stability and Instability in the Developing World; Part VII; The Age of Terror, 2001-2012; Introduction; 23 The 'War on Terror' and the War in Afghanistan; 24 The Iraq War and the Middle East; 25 The Shifting Global Balance...
