Odd Arne Westad (London School of Economics and Political Science)

The Global Cold War

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Produktbeschreibung

Odd Arne Westad offers a compelling and panoramic new history of the global conflict waged by the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War and the part it played in fuelling the ideologies, movements and states which increasingly dominate international affairs today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• New ed.
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 802g
• ISBN-13: 9780521703147
• ISBN-10: 052170314X
• Artikelnr.: 22594042

Autorenporträt

Odd Arne Westad is Director of the Cold War Studies Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His recent publications include Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950 (2003) and The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. The empire of liberty: American ideology and foreign interventions; 2. The empire of justice: Soviet ideology and foreign interventions; 3. The revolutionaries: anti-colonial politics and transformations; 4. Creating the Third World: the United States confronts revolution; 5. The Cuban and Vietnamese challenges; 6. The crisis of decolonization: Southern Africa; 7. The prospects of socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn; 8. The Islamist defiance; 9. The 1980s: the Reagan offensive; 10. The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War; Conclusion: Revolutions, interventions and Great Power collapse.

Rezensionen

'This is a genuinely 'international' history ... few genuine research monographs are so wide ranging chronologically and geographically, while also trying to absorb insights from sociology and social anthropology ... taken as a whole no historian has dealt with the links between the Cold War so fully, so broadly and so thoughtfully as Westad in this new account ... a truly seminal work, whose findings will exercise those researching the Cold War for many years.' Reviews in History