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The global Cold War : third world interventions and the making of our times /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Westad, Odd Arne
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Edition:1st pbk. ed.
Subjects:
Cold War.
International relations.
World politics > 1945-1989.
Developing countries > Relations > Soviet Union.
Developing countries > Relations > United States.
Soviet Union > Relations > Developing countries.
United States > Relations > Developing countries.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The empire of liberty : American ideology and foreign interventions
  • The empire of justice : Soviet ideology and foreign interventions
  • The revolutionaries : Anti-colonial politics and transformations
  • Creating the Third World : The United States confronts revolution
  • The Cuban and Vietnamese challenges
  • The crisis of decolonization : Southern Africa
  • The prospects of socialism : Ethiopia and the Horn
  • The Islamist defiance : Iran and Afghanistan
  • The 1980s : The Reagan offensive
  • The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War.