World Politics since 1945

A new edition of Peter Calvocoressi's classic survey of the global political scene. Lucid, authoritative, enlightening and wise, this isthebook to read for those wishing to understand the political world we live in today. A classic work of narrative reference Covers all the major political events since 1945 Endorsements to come from Andrew Marr and Lord Patten of Barnes PR campaign to celebrate both the book and the author

About the author:

Peter Calvocoressi (who turns 97 this year) has had a remarkable life. During the war he worked at Bletchley Park as part of the Ultra intelligence team; he was sent to Nuremberg by the Joint Intelligence Committee, where he provided advice to the four chief prosecutors; in the post-war period he succeeded Arnold Toynbee and wrote the annual survey for the Royal Institute of International Affairs; from 1961 to 1971 he was on the council of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and served as chair of their Africa Bureau; during the same period he served on the United Nations Working Group on Minorities; on top of which he managed to develop distinguished ancillary careers in publishing, journalism, academia, and, of course, as an author of over twenty books

List of maps	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. xii
The Cold War
The Cold War	p. 1
Beginnings	p. 3
The division of Germany	p. 13
NATO and the Soviet empire to the Cuban crisis	p. 18
The arms race	p. 30
The perplexities of the United States	p. 52
The disintegration of the USSR	p. 65
The limits of superpower	p. 83
The Far East	p. 93
Japan	p. 95
China	p. 108
The triumph of Mao	p. 108
China and the superpowers	p. 116
Resurrection	p. 132
Xinjiang and Tibet	p. 145
Korea	p. 149
Europe remodelled	p. 155
Western Europe	p. 157
Recovery	p. 157
Franco-German entente	p. 169
Britain on the edge	p. 174
European Union (west)	p. 181
European Union (east-west)	p. 198
The southern flank	p. 206
Central and eastern Europe	p. 224
Stalin's empire	p. 224
After Stalin	p. 234
End of empire	p. 247
Yugoslavia and Albania	p. 262
Federated Yugoslavia	p. 262
Dissolution: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes	p. 266
Partition: Bosnia-Herzegovina	p. 271
Kosovo	p. 278
Macedonia and Albania	p. 282
Notes
Northern Ireland	p. 286
The Basques	p. 295
Cyprus	p. 296
The Middle East	p. 305
Islam	p. 307
Turkey	p. 309
The Arabs and Israel to the Suez War	p. 315
The creation of Israel	p. 317
Arab revolutions	p. 323
The Suez War	p. 328
From Suez to the death of Nasser	p. 335
Reassessments	p. 335
The decline of Nasser and the Six-Day War	p. 338
The destruction of Lebanon	p. 346
The Yom Kippur War	p. 347
Civil war	p. 351
Camp David	p. 354
Israel's invasion of Lebanon	p. 358
Towards a Palestinian state	p. 364
King Hussein's diplomacy	p. 364
Israel's dilemma	p. 367
Iran and Gulf Wars	p. 376
Oil and nationalism	p. 377
The shah and the ayatollah	p. 381
Saddam Hussein	p. 387
Kuwait and the Gulf War	p. 390
The destruction of Iraq	p. 401
The Arabian peninsula	p. 405
The Saudi kingdom	p. 405
The southern fringe	p. 410
Britain and the Persian Gulf	p. 413
Notes
The Kurds	p. 417
The Shi'ites	p. 420
Sectarian violence	p. 420
South Asia	p. 425
The Indian sub-continent	p. 427
The first partition	p. 428
Northern borders: Tibet, Kashmir, the Himalayan states	p. 433
The second partition	p. 441
The Indo-Chinese peninsula	p. 454
South-east Asia and ASEAN	p. 471
Afghanistan	p. 493
Notes
Central Asia	p. 499
Sri Lanka	p. 500
Africa	p. 505
General	p. 507
North Africa	p. 509
The Maghrib	p. 509
Libya and Chad	p. 520
West Africa	p. 525
Independence	p. 525
The coastal loop from Senegal to Benin	p. 532
Landlocked: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger	p. 542
Nigeria	p. 543
Central Africa	p. 553
Congo-Zaire-Congo	p. 553
Rwanda and Burundi	p. 566
West Central Africa	p. 568
East Africa	p. 571
Sudan	p. 571
Darfur	p. 576
The Horn	p. 577
Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya	p. 584
Africa's deep south	p. 596
The legacy of Cecil Rhodes	p. 596
Mozambique-Angola-Namibia	p. 613
South Africa	p. 621
Russians, Cubans, Chinese	p. 645
Notes
The Malagasy Republic and the Indian Ocean	p. 661
Botswana, Lesotho, Ngwane	p. 663
The Homelands or Bantustans	p. 665
Latin America	p. 667
South America	p. 669
General	p. 669
Central America	p. 706
Cuba and the Caribbean	p. 721
Note
Guyana and Surinam	p. 735
World order	p. 737
World order	p. 739
Preventing wars	p. 739
Preventing economic disasters	p. 759
Neutralism and realignment	p. 767
Poverty	p. 778
Notes
Canada	p. 788
Very small states	p. 793
The Poles	p. 797
The law of the sea	p. 797
The sovereign state	p. 800
Index	p. 803
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