Fifty Years of Change
Short History of World Politics Since 1945
3rd Edition
Published on 5. December 2016
400 pages
978-1-315-29355-4 (ISBN)
Description
The past half-century has seen many hopes raised and some dashed, a succession of fears and false alarms, and both triumphs and calamities that were almost entirely unexpected. This work offers a short but sweeping history of world politics since 1945: America's postwar pre-eminence and the hopes that attended the creation of the United Nations; the Cold War and the emergence of a volatile Third World; economic transformations and the twin threat of nuclear and ecological disaster; the crumbling of the Soviet system and the short-lived promise of a peaceful, prosperous and democratic new world. The author describes these momentous changes concisely in an effort to show how we got here from there and what we might have learned along the way.
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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
figures, maps, tables, bibliography, index
File size
17,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-315-29355-4 (9781315293554)
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Schweitzer Classification
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03/1997
3rd Edition
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03/1997
3rd Edition
Routledge
€46.00
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Person
Robertson, Charles L.
Content
Part 1 The World in 1945: The Collapse of the European System and the Shaping of a New World. Part 2 The World of the 1950s and 1960s: The Development of a Bipolar World; Bipolarism Challenged - Within the Blocs; Bipolarism Challenged - The Non-Western World; The Cold War in the 1960s; Co-operation and Conflict in the Third World. Part 3 Global Politics: Toward a Politics of Planet Earth; The Collapse of the Communist World; "The Winner". Part 4 Three Quarters of the World: The Periphery; Asia and the Pacific; The Middle East and the Persian Gulf; Africa and Latin America.
