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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 | |