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Author:   Keith Robbins
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Red Globe Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.770kg
ISBN:  

9780333771990

ISBN 10:   0333771990
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   12 December 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chronology Maps Introduction: Grasping Global History PART I: ENDING WAR, BUILDING PEACE Struggles for Mastery Policemen Meeting Outcomes and Anticipations PART II 1945-1955: MAKING A COLD PEACE European Alternatives The United Nations and the United States The Middle East South Asia East Asia PART III: 1955-1965: TO THE BRINK AND BACK Superpowers and Subordinates: The Middle East and Europe Continental Confrontations: Castro, Kennedy, Khruschev Africa: Emergences and Emergencies Algeria: Found and Lost Asian Accommodations PART IV: 1965-1975: OLD PATTERNS AND NEW PERMUTATIONS Asian Variations Superpowers Challenged Security and Cooperation in Europe Overlapping Linkages: A Mediterranean World Africa's Worlds PART V: COMING TO CONCLUSIONS 1975-1989 Europeans: Identifying a Common Home? The Middle East: Putting its World to Rights? A Question of Latitude: 'North' and 'South' Afghanistan to Sri Lanka: South Asia? East Asia/Pacific: Flexing Muscles? Gorbachev and Reagan: Turning Point 1985-89 PART VI: 1991-2011: NEW WORLD ORDERS? Superpowers: Rethinking Required The Middle East: Still at the Centre Identifying Multipolar Complexity.

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KEITH ROBBINS was formerly Professor of History at Bangor and Glasgow universities in the UK, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales. He has held the posts of President of the Historical Association, and Editor of History. He is the author of over 20 books, 8 edited books, and 120 scholarly articles on political, military, religious and international history, and is the general editor of six major historical series.

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