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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 | |