World Politics since 1945 (9th Edition)

World Politics Since 1945 Peter Calvocoressi Table of Contents List of MapsAcknowledgementsIntroduction 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