World Politics since 1945 (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
856
Utgivningsdatum
2008-10-30
Upplaga
9
Förlag
Longman
Illustratör/Fotograf
maps
Illustrationer
maps
Dimensioner
240 x 170 x 40 mm
Vikt
1410 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
MINI BOOK
ISBN
9781405899383

World Politics since 1945

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First published in 1968, World Politics since 1945 is a classic and authoritative study of contemporary political history that has helped to divert, educate, and inform two generations of political scientists, historians and general readers. The ninth edition has been expanded and updated to take into account the developments of the last 10 years, including the ugly incursions of global terrorism; the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sudan; the accelerating emergence of India and China as major powers; the major political developments in Latin America; the march of globalisation; the expansion eastwards of the European Union; instability in the Middle East; and the vexed question of oil and energy supplies.

The book has long been a staple of bookshelves and reading lists across the world, and provides a reliable and interconnected account of the great sweeps of contemporary history. Marked throughout by Calvocoressis characteristic erudition and elegance, it will continue to be essential reading for students of international politics and for all of those who simply wish to understand better the path the world has taken since the end of the Second World War.

The book compels admiration for its thoroughness, its scope, the masterly ordering of its immense material.
The Sunday Times

This is a famous book, and has been for forty years, as it has grown steadily in scope and colour. Ninety-something per cent of political commentary is cribbed and confined by a lack of historical and geographical context. Here, for once, are the dots joined, the movements explained and the details returned to the world-sized landscape.
Andrew Marr

Peter Calvocoressi's book is an invaluable guide to global politics since the Second World War. It has reminded me of things I had forgotten and taught me things I did not know. I will be a constant user of this interesting book.
Chris Patten

Lucid narrative, coherent structure and an enlightened liberal viewpoint.
Sir Con ONeill, The Observer

This is the most lucid, comprehensive, intelligent, and reliable account of post-war modern history on the market.
Teaching Politics

Peter Calvocoressi has a remarkable record of providing concise, pithy, shrewd and accessible analyses of contemporary history. World Politics demonstrates fully the range of his knowledge and the sagacity of his judgement.
Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman.

About the author
Peter Calvocoressi, a distinguished figure in the field of International Relations, was born in 1912 and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a First in History. He was called to the Bar in 1935. During the Second World War he worked in Ultra intelligence at Bletchley Park and later attended the Nuremberg trials. Since then he has divided his time between publishing and internati...

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About the author: Peter Calvocoressi (who turns 97 this year) has had a remarkable life. During the war he worked at Bletchley Park as part of the Ultra intelligence team; he was sent to Nuremberg by the Joint Intelligence Committee, where he provided advice to the four chief prosecutors; in the post-war period he succeeded Arnold Toynbee and wrote the annual survey for the Royal Institute of International Affairs; from 1961 to 1971 he was on the council of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and served as chair of their Africa Bureau; during the same period he served on the United Nations Working Group on Minorities; on top of which he managed to develop distinguished ancillary careers in publishing, journalism, academia, and, of course, as an author of over twenty books

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World Politics Since 1945

 

Peter Calvocoressi

 

Table of Contents

 

List of Maps

Acknowledgements

Introduction

 

PART ONE: THE COLD WAR

 

1   The Cold War

 

   Beginnings

   The division of Germany

   Nato and the Soviet empire to the Cuban crisis

   The arms race

   The perplexities of the United States

   The disintegration of the USSR

   The limits of superpower

 

PART TWO: THE FAR EAST

 

2 Japan

 

3 China

      The triumph of Mao

      China and the superpowers

      Resurrection

      Xinjiang and Tibet

 

4 Korea

 

PART THREE: EUROPE REMODELLED

 

5 Western Europe

      Recovery

      Franco-German entente

      Britain on the edge

      European Union (west)

      European Union (east west)

      The southern flank

 

6 Central and eastern Europe

      Stalins empire

      After Stalin

      End of empire

 

7 Yugoslavia and Albania

      Federated Yugoslavia

      Dissolution: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

      Partition: Bosnia-Herzegovina

      Kosovo

      Macedonia and Albania

  

Notes   A   Northern Ireland

   B    The Basques

   C    Cyprus

 

PART FOUR: THE MIDDLE EAST

 

8 Islam

 

9 Turkey

 

10   The Arabs and Israel to the Suez War

      The creation of Israel

      Arab revolutions

      The Suez War

 

11   From Suez to the death of Nasser

      Reassessments

      The decline of Nasser and the Six-Day War

 

12   The destruction of Lebanon

   The Yom Kippur War

      Civil war

      Camp David

      Israels invasion of Lebanon

 

13   Towards a Palesti...