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The Globalization of the Cold War, Diplomacy and Local Confrontation, 1975-85, edited by Max Guderzo and Bruna Bagnato

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The Globalization of the Cold War

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edited by Max Guderzo and Bruna Bagnato

ProQuest Ebook CentralCold War History

Diplomacy and Local Confrontation, 1975-85

Focuses on the globalisation of the Cold War in the years 1975-85. This book highlights the transformation from bipolar US-Soviet competition to global confrontation

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Part I The Latin American arena; 1 Carter's new look: US foreign policy in Latin America, 1977-80; 2 Operation Urgent Fury: The shift from rhetorical to military offensive in Reagan's global rollback of communism; Part II African challenges; 3 Libya, the United States and the Soviet Union: From the rise of Qadhafi to Ronald Reagan's policy of pressure; 4 Human rights versus Cold War: The Horn of Africa, Southwest Asia and the emergence of the Carter Doctrine5 Carter and the African morass: US policy and the failure of the state-building process in Angola and the Congo6 East-South relations in the 1970s and the GDR involvement in Africa: Between bloc loyalty and self-interest; Part III War and peace in Asia; 7 The United States and the Iran-Iraq war: The limits of American influence; 8 The United States and the Third World in the Carter years: The case of India; 9 The Sino-American entente of 1978-79 and its 'baptism of fire'in Indochina; Part IV Adifferent world; 10 The international system after the end of the Cold War; Index;