
Winning the Third World
Sino-American Rivalry During the Cold War
Gregg A. Brazinsky(Author)
The University of North Carolina Press
Published on 30. November 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-1-4696-6864-2 (ISBN)
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Winning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg A. Brazinsky shows how both nations fought vigorously to establish their influence in newly independent African and Asian countries. By playing a leadership role in Asia and Africa, China hoped to regain its status in world affairs, but Americans feared that China's history as a nonwhite, anticolonial nation would make it an even more dangerous threat in the postcolonial world than the Soviet Union. Drawing on a broad array of new archival materials from China and the United States, Brazinsky demonstrates that disrupting China's efforts to elevate its stature became an important motive behind Washington's use of both hard and soft power in the "Global South."
Presenting a detailed narrative of the diplomatic, economic, and cultural competition between Beijing and Washington, Brazinsky offers an important new window for understanding the impact of the Cold War on the Third World. With China's growing involvement in Asia and Africa in the twenty-first century, this impressive new work of international history has an undeniable relevance to contemporary world affairs and policy making.
Presenting a detailed narrative of the diplomatic, economic, and cultural competition between Beijing and Washington, Brazinsky offers an important new window for understanding the impact of the Cold War on the Third World. With China's growing involvement in Asia and Africa in the twenty-first century, this impressive new work of international history has an undeniable relevance to contemporary world affairs and policy making.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4696-6864-2 (9781469668642)
DOI
10.5149/9781469631714_Brazinsky
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Gregg A. Brazinsky is associate professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University.