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The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the end helped topple one superpower and still seriously challenge the other. Ranging from China to Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua, it provides a truly global perspective on the Cold War. And by exploring both the development of interventionist ideologies and the revolutionary movements that confronted interventions, the book links the past with the present in ways that no other major work on the Cold War era has succeeded in doing.
. Winner of the Bancroft Prize, the APSA Michael Harrington Award and the Akira Iriye International History Book Award
. A global history of the origins and course of the Third World revolutions and of the US and Soviet interventions which shaped them
. Sheds new light on the origins of the ideologies, movements and states which increasingly dominate international affairs today
Introduction
1. The empire of liberty: American ideology and foreign interventions
2. The empire of justice: Soviet ideology and foreign interventions
3. The revolutionaries: anti-colonial politics and transformations
4. Creating the Third World: the United States confronts revolution
5. The Cuban and Vietnamese challenges
6. The crisis of decolonization: Southern Africa
7. The prospects of socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn
8. The Islamist defiance
9. The 1980s: the Reagan offensive
10. The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War
Conclusion: Revolutions, interventions and Great Power collapse.
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The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the end helped topple one superpower and still seriously challenge the other. Ranging from China to Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua, it provides a truly global perspective on the Cold War. And by exploring both the development of interventionist ideologies and the revolutionary movements that confronted interventions, the book links the past with the present in ways that no other major work on the Cold War era has succeeded in doing.
. Winner of the Bancroft Prize, the APSA Michael Harrington Award and the Akira Iriye International History Book Award
. A global history of the origins and course of the Third World revolutions and of the US and Soviet interventions which shaped them
. Sheds new light on the origins of the ideologies, movements and states which increasingly dominate international affairs today
