Global Cold War Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times

Name: Global Cold War Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
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ISBN: 9780521703147

ISBN-10: 052170314X

ISBN-13: 9780521703147

Edition: 2007

Authors: Odd Arne Westad

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The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the end helped topple one superpower and still seriously challenge the other. Ranging from China to Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua, it provides a truly global perspective on the Cold War. And by exploring both the development of…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/19/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.98" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.958
Language: English

Odd Arne Westad is Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science.



Introduction



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



The 1980s: the Reagan offensive



The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War


Conclusion: Revolutions, interventions and Great Power collapse