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List of maps | |
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Introduction | |
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World Power and World Order | |
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The superpowers | |
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The onset of the Cold War | |
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The division of Germany | |
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Nato and the Soviet empire to the Cuban crisis | |
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The arms race | |
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The United States: unique but not omnipotent | |
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The disintegration of the USSR | |
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Japan | |
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China | |
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The triumph of Mao | |
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China and the superpowers | |
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Resurrection | |
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Xinjiang and Tibet | |
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World order | |
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Preventing wars | |
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Preventing economic disasters | |
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A Third World--and a Fourth | |
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Neutralism and realignments | |
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Poverty | |
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Notes | |
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Very small states | |
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Antarctica | |
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The law of the sea | |
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Europe | |
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Western Europe | |
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Recovery | |
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Franco-German entente | |
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Britain on the edge | |
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European union (west) | |
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European union (east-west) | |
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The southern flank | |
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Central and eastern Europe | |
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Stalin's empire | |
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After Stalin | |
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End of empire | |
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Yugoslavia and Albania | |
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Federated Yugoslavia | |
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Dissolution: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | |
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Partition: Bosnia-Herzegovina | |
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Kosovo | |
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Macedonia and Albania | |
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Notes | |
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Northern Ireland | |
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The Basques | |
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Cyprus | |
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The Middle East | |
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The Arabs and Israel to the Suez War | |
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The creation of Israel | |
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Arab revolutions | |
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The Suez War | |
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From Suez to the death of Nasser | |
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Reassessments | |
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The decline of Nasser and the Six-Day War | |
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The destruction of Lebanon | |
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The Yom Kippur War | |
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Civil war | |
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Camp David | |
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Israel's invasion | |
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Towards a Palestinian state | |
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King Hussein's diplomacy | |
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Israel's dilemma | |
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Iran and Gulf Wars | |
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Oil and nationalism | |
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The shah and the ayatollah | |
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Saddam Hussein | |
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Kuwait and the Gulf War | |
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The Arabian peninsula | |
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The Saudi kingdom | |
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The southern fringe | |
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Britain and the Persian Gulf | |
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Notes | |
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The Kurds | |
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The Shi'ites | |
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Sectarian violence | |
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Asia | |
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The Indian sub-continent | |
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The first partition | |
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Northern borders: Tibet, Kashmir, the Himalayan states | |
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The second partition | |
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The Indo-Chinese peninsula | |
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South-east Asia and ASEAN | |
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Afghanistan | |
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Korea | |
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Notes | |
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Central Asia | |
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Sri Lanka | |
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Africa | |
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North Africa | |
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The Maghrib | |
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Libya and Chad | |
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West Africa | |
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Independence | |
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The coastal loop from Senegal to Benin | |
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Landlocked: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger | |
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Nigeria | |
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Central Africa | |
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Congo-Zaire-Congo | |
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Rwanda and Burundi | |
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West Central Africa | |
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East Africa | |
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Sudan | |
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The Horn | |
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Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya | |
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Africa's deep south | |
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The legacy of Cecil Rhodes | |
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Mozambique: Angola: Namibia | |
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South Africa | |
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Russians, Cubans, Chinese | |
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Notes | |
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The Malagasy Republic and the Indian Ocean | |
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Botswana, Lesotho, Ngwane | |
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The Homelands or Bantustans | |
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America | |
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Canada | |
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South America | |
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Mexico and Central America | |
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Cuba and the Caribbean | |
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Note: Guyana and Surinam | |
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Key to United Nations missions (Map 4.1) | |
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Index | |