The world since 1945
Subtitle: a history of international relations
By: Wayne C. McWilliams, Harry Piotrowski.
Contributors: Piotrowski, Harry.
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 617
Subjects: World politics -- 1945-1989.; World politics -- 1989-; Military history, Modern -- 20th century.; Developing countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The end of World War II and the dawn of the nuclear age; title: The Cold War institutionalized; title: The Cold War in Asia: a change of venue; title: Confrontation and coexistence; title: Decolonization in Asia; title: Decolonization in Africa; title: The middle East: the Arab-Israeli conflict; title: The communist world after Stalin; title: The war in Indochina; title: Détente and the end of bipolarity; title: Problems of economic development in the Third World; title: Africa; title: Latin America; title: The People's Republic of China and Taiwan; title: The Indian subcontintent and Southeast Asia; title: Japan, Korea, and East Asian economic development; title: The globalization of the economy; title: Gorbachev's perestroika and the Soviet Union's retreat from empire; title: The nuclear arms race; title: Political Islam and the Middle East; title: September 11 and its consequences; title: Epilogue: the end of the postwar age.