World Politics since 1945 (Paperback, 9 ed)

World Politics Since 1945

Peter Calvocoressi

Table of Contents

List of Maps

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART ONE: THE COLD WAR

1   The Cold War

   Beginnings

   The division of Germany

   Nato and the Soviet empire to the Cuban crisis

   The arms race

   The perplexities of the United States

   The disintegration of the USSR

   The limits of superpower

PART TWO: THE FAR EAST

2 Japan

3 China

      The triumph of Mao

      China and the superpowers

      Resurrection

      Xinjiang and Tibet

4 Korea

PART THREE: EUROPE REMODELLED

5 Western Europe

      Recovery

      Franco-German entente

      Britain on the edge

      European Union (west)

      European Union (east – west)

      The southern flank

6 Central and eastern Europe

      Stalin’s empire

      After Stalin

      End of empire

7 Yugoslavia and Albania

      Federated Yugoslavia

      Dissolution: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

      Partition: Bosnia-Herzegovina

      Kosovo

      Macedonia and Albania

Notes   A   Northern Ireland

   B    The Basques

   C    Cyprus

PART FOUR: THE MIDDLE EAST

8 Islam

9 Turkey

10   The Arabs and Israel to the Suez War

      The creation of Israel

      Arab revolutions

      The Suez War

11   From Suez to the death of Nasser

      Reassessments

      The decline of Nasser and the Six-Day War

12   The destruction of Lebanon

   The Yom Kippur War

      Civil war

      Camp David

      Israel’s invasion of Lebanon

13   Towards a Palestinian State

      King Hussein’s diplomacy

      Israel’s dilemma

14   Iran and Gulf Wars

      Oil and nationalism

      The shah and the ayatollah

      Saddam Hussein

      Kuwait and the Gulf War

      The destruction of Iraq

15   The Arabian Peninsula

      The Saudi kingdom

      The southern fringe

      Britain and the Persian Gulf

Notes   A    The Kurds

   B The Shi’ites

   C    Sectarian violence

PART FIVE: SOUTH ASIA

16   The Indian subcontinent

      The first partition

      Northern borders: Tibet, Kashmir, the Himalayan states

      The second partition

17   The Indo-Chinese peninsula

18   South-east Asia and ASEAN

19   Afghanistan

   Notes   A    Central Asia

   B Sri Lanka

PART SIX: AFRICA

20   General

21   North Africa

      The Maghrib

      Libya and Chad

22   West Africa

      Independence

      The coastal loop from Senegal to Benin

      Landlocked: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger

      Nigeria

23   Central Africa

      Congo-Zaire-Congo

      Rwanda and Burundi

      West Central Africa

24   East Africa

      Sudan

      Darfur

      The Horn

      Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya

25   Africa’s deep south

      The legacy of Cecil Rhodes

      Mozambique-Angola-Namibia

      South Africa

26   Russians, Cubans, Chinese

Notes   A    The Malagasy Republic and the Indian Ocean

   B Botswana, Lesotho, Ngwane

   C    The Homelands or Bantustans

PART SEVEN: LATIN AMERICA

27   South America

      General

28   Central America

29   Cuba and the Caribbean

     Note Guyana and Surinam

PART EIGHT: WORLD ORDER

30   World Order

      Preventing wars

      Preventing economic disasters

      Neutralism and realignment

      Poverty

   Notes   A    Canada

   B Very small states

   C    The Poles

   D    The law of the sea

APPENDIX: THE SOVEREIGN STATE   

Index