World Affairs Companion

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ISBN: 9780671741563 | 067174156X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/15/1991

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From Simon & Schuster, The World Affairs Companion is Gerald Segal's essential one-volume guide to global issues that you can't afford to miss.

The World Affairs is a fascinating, facts-at-your-fingertips guidebook for the newswatcher, armchair strategist or student of international politics, and the first place to look for instant perspective on today's world events.

Acknowledgements
Maps
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Power of Politics
Shaping the World Today	p. 2
Fading Superpowers and New Great Powers	p. 7
How Empires Die	p. 10
The Sometimes United Nations	p. 14
North-South Relations	p. 20
International Money	p. 26
Managing International Debt	p. 31
The World Trading System	p. 36
The Politics of Oil	p. 44
The Politics of Sports	p. 48
Shaping the New Agenda
Islam and Other Ideologies	p. 54
People Power and Human Rights	p. 58
Migration and Refugees	p. 62
Food and Famine	p. 67
Disasters and their Relief	p. 72
Earth Matters	p. 76
The Sea and Politics	p. 83
The Drug Trade	p. 86
Plagues	p. 90
Modern Warfare
The Nuclear Weapons Revolution	p. 96
ICBMS and their Control	p. 100
Nuclear Tests and Proliferation	p. 105
Chemical and Biological Weapons	p. 112
The Arms Trade	p. 115
Terrorism	p. 119
Spies	p. 124
The New Europe
Securing Democracy	p. 130
European Securities	p. 134
European Communities	p. 139
Russia and its Old Empire	p. 145
Chaos in the Caucasus	p. 150
Back to the Balkans	p. 153
Greece and Turkey	p. 158
Insoluble Ireland	p. 161
East Asia and the Pacific
Japan and the United States	p. 168
China and Russia	p. 173
The Koreas	p. 177
Prospects for Hong Kong	p. 181
Taiwan and other Disputed Islands	p. 185
Indochina	p. 190
Association of South-East Asian Nations	p. 194
Paradise in the South Pacific	p. 197
Towards a Pacific Century?	p. 200
South Asia
Reshaping Central Asia	p. 206
An Indian Superpower?	p. 209
Sri Lanka	p. 213
Himalayan Frontiers	p. 216
The Americas
The USA and North America	p. 220
Remaking Canada	p. 225
Panama and the Canal	p. 229
Cuba and the Caribbean	p. 231
South American Squabbles	p. 234
The Falklands - or the Malvinas	p. 237
Organizing the Americas	p. 240
The Middle East
Israel and Palestine	p. 244
Lebanon in Pieces	p. 250
Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf	p. 254
Where are the Kurds?	p. 257
Iraq and Kuwait	p. 259
Africa
Revolution in South Africa	p. 264
Western Sahara	p. 269
Chad and its neighbours	p. 273
On the Horn of Africa	p. 276
Angola Unglued	p. 279
The Organization of African Unity	p. 282
Index	p. 285
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