Cold War in the Third World
1st Edition
Published on 24. April 2013
244 pages
978-0-19-934405-5 (ISBN)
Description
This collection explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World. Featuring original essays by twelve leading scholars, it examines the influence of Third World actors on the course of the Cold War. It explores as well the deep impact that the superpower confrontation exerted on the emerging states and societies of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Cold War and the Middle East
- 2 What Was Containment?: Short and Long Answers from the Americas
- 3 Southeast Asia in the Cold War
- 4 South Asia and the Cold War
- 5 China, the Third World, and the Cold War
- 6 Africa's Cold War
- 7 Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Post-Columbian Era
- 8 The Rise and Fall of Nonalignment
- 9 Culture, the Cold War, and the Third World
- 10 The Histories of African Americans' Anticolonialism during the Cold War
- 11 The War on the Peasant: The United States and the Third World
- Epilogue: The Cold War and the Third World
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
