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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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Preface to the First Edition | |
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Introduction | |
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Colonial liberation wars | |
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Africa | |
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Algeria: the independence struggle | |
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Angola: the liberation struggle | |
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Cameroon: radical opposition revolt | |
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Cape Verde: the independence struggle | |
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Egypt: the end of British 'control' | |
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Ethiopia: three colonial wars | |
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Guinea-Bissau: war of liberation against Portugal | |
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Kenya: Mau Mau uprising | |
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Madagascar: nationalist revolt | |
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Mozambique: war of liberation against Portugal | |
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Namibia: the independence struggle | |
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Tunisia: an end to colonialism 1952-1962 | |
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Western Sahara: desert war | |
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Zimbabwe: war of independence | |
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The Middle East | |
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Cyprus: enosis, independence, communal strife | |
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The Kurds: an endless war | |
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Oman: British trucial obligations | |
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Aden: outpost of empire | |
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Asia and the Pacific | |
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Brunei: rebellion 1962-1963 | |
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Indonesia: the independence struggle | |
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Malaya: the Communist emergency 1948-1960 | |
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New Caledonia: settler colonialism | |
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Vanuatu: a small disturbance | |
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The Americas | |
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Anguilla: comic opera | |
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The Falklands War | |
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Big power intervention wars | |
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Africa | |
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Central African Republic 1979 | |
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Gabon: a French military base | |
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The East African army mutinies 1964 | |
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Libya: an American attack | |
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Europe | |
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Georgia: civil war and Russian assistance | |
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Asia | |
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Afghanistan: strategy versus Islam | |
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The Gulf War against Iraq January-February 1991 | |
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Korea 1950-1953: Cold War pawns | |
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Vietnam: the thirty years' war | |
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The Americas | |
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Cuba: a very close thing | |
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The Dominican Republic: American intervention | |
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Grenada: mini-state revolution and US intervention | |
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Panama: exit Noriega | |
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Border wars and wars between Third World countries | |
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Africa | |
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Burkina Faso: the five-day war, December 1985 | |
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Chad: Civil wars and Libyan expansionism | |
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Guinea: a mini-invasion | |
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Kenya-Somalia: the Shifta war | |
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The Ogaden war 1977-1978 | |
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The Seychelles: a botched coup | |
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South Africa: destabilizing its neighbours | |
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Tanzania and Uganda: the fall of Amin 1978-1979 | |
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Zaire: the two Shaba wars 1977 and 1978 | |
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The Middle East | |
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The Gulf War: Iran and Iraq 1980-1988 | |
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North Yemen and South Yemen: border wars | |
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Europe | |
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Armenia-Azerbaijan: the struggle for Nagorno-Karabakh | |
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Asia | |
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China: adjustment wars in Tibet, India and Vietnam 1950-1989 | |
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India-Pakistan: wars 1948, 1965, and 1971 | |
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Indonesia: confrontation with Malaysia 1963-1966 | |
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Kampuchea/Cambodia: border war, civil war, Vietnam invasion | |
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The Americas | |
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Costa Rica: the Nicaragua war | |
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El Salvador-Honduras: the Soccer War 1969 | |
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Honduras: the USA and Contra bases | |
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Israel and its neighbours | |
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The Suez War 1956 | |
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The Six Day War 1967 | |
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The Yom Kippur War 1973 | |
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Jordan: the Palestinian uprising 1970 | |
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The Israeli invasion of Lebanon 1982 | |
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Syria and Lebanon: the 1976 invasion and its aftermath | |
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Israel in the 1990s: a Palestinian state? | |
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Civil wars: ideological | |
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Africa | |
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Algeria: war against Islamist fundamentalists | |
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The Angolan civil war 1975-1994 (ongoing) | |
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Burundi: civil war by massacre | |
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The Gambia: coup attempt, Senegal to the rescue | |
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Lesotho: from coup to civil strife | |
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Liberia: tribal civil war 1990-1994 | |
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Mozambique: the war against Renamo | |
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The Nigerian civil war 1967-1970 | |
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Rwanda: the peasants' revolt | |
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Somalia: civil war - north versus south | |
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South Africa: escalating civil strife - Soweto to the elections 1994 | |
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Sudan: north-south, an old pattern of mistrust | |
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Uganda: a troubled independence | |
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Zaire: the Congo crisis 1960-1965 | |
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Zambia: the Lumpa uprising 1964 | |
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Zanzibar: African-Arab revolution 1964 | |
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Zimbabwe: war against the dissidents | |
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The Middle East | |
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Cyprus: EOKA-B and the Turkish invasion of 1974 | |
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Iran: the 1979 revolution and the fall of the Shah | |
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Lebanon: permanent civil war | |
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Oman: the Dhofar rebellion | |
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Syria: controlling the Muslim Brotherhood | |
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Turkey: political terrorism | |
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North Yemen: civil war 1962-1970 | |
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South Yemen: the PDRY - left against left | |
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Asia | |
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Afghanistan: post-soviet power struggle | |
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The creation of Bangladesh | |
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Burma: endless insurgency | |
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China: civil war 1945-1949 | |
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India: partition and communal strife | |
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Indonesia: Irian Jaya | |
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Laos: left against right, right against left | |
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The Philippines: Communist insurgency and Muslim separatism | |
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Sri Lanka: Sinhalese nationalism and Tamil separatism | |
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Tajikistan: the old guard, Islam and democracy | |
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Thailand: Communist insurgency | |
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The Americas | |
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Argentina: the dirty war | |
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Bolivia: ripe for revolution? | |
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Brazil: the fall of Goulart | |
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Chile: the fall of Allende | |
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Colombia: permanent civil strife | |
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Costa Rica: a break in tradition | |
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Cuba: the Castro revolution | |
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El Salvador: a decade of civil war | |
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Guatemala: a permanent state of civil war | |
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Guyana: the revolt of the ranchers 1969 | |
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Haiti: ripe for revolution | |
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Mexico: the Chiapas rebellion 1994 | |
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Nicaragua: the Sandinista revolution and the Contra war | |
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Paraguay: repression works | |
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Peru: the Shining Path | |
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Suriname: revolt of the Bush Negroes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index of Names | |