Bibliograph

The Global Cold War, Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, Odd Arne Westad

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The Global Cold War, Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, Odd Arne Westad

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

The Global Cold War

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

854970042

Responsibility statement

Odd Arne Westad

Series statement

ACLS Humanities E-Book

Sub title

Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- The empire of liberty: American ideology and foreign interventions -- The empire of justice: Soviet ideology and foreign interventions -- The revolutionaries: anticolonial politics and transformations -- Creating the Third World: the United States confronts revolution -- The Cuban and Vietnamese challenges -- The crisis of decolonization: Southern Africa -- The prospects of socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn -- The Islamist defiance: Iran and Afghanistan -- The 1980s: the Reagan offensive -- The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War -- Conclusion: Revolutions, interventions, and great power collapse

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