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The Global Cold War

By - Westad, Odd Arne
Floor - Floor 4
Published - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007
ISBN 10 - 052170314X
ISBN 13 - 9780521703147
Book Status - 3 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - World politics
Shelf No - 1
Call Number - 909.82 WES
Physical Description - 1 online resource (xiv, 484 pages) : illustrations, maps
Notes - Includes Index
Book Information
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.

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