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Chapter 1: Great Power rivalry and the World War, 1900–17
Chapter one introduces the concept of power in states system and the nature of great…
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Chapter 2: The search for European stability, 1917–29
Chapter two examines why peace and stability in Europe proved elusive in the 1920s and…
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Chapter 3: Japan, China and the origins of the Pacific War, 1900–41
To understand the origins of the Pacific War, it is important to focus on the…
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Chapter 4: The European colonial empires, 1900–45
The rise of Japan to Great Power status was by no means the only challenge…
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Chapter 5: ‘Good Neighbors’? The United States and the Americas, 1900–45
This chapter explores how the nature of American interventionism in the Western Hemisphere changed in…
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Chapter 6: The path to European war, 1930–39
Chapter 6 analyses the origins of the Second World War in Europe. It sets out…
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Chapter 7: The Second World War, 1940–45
Chapter 7 begins by explaining how the Europe war of 1939 escalated into a global…
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Chapter 8: The ‘First’ Cold War in Europe, 1945–61
The origins of the Cold War were not a purely, perhaps not even primarily, a…
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Chapter 9: Asia in Turmoil: Nationalism, Revolution and the Rise of the Cold War, 1945–53
The encroachment of the Cold War and its attendant reductionist logic had a profound effect…
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Chapter 10: From Cold War to détente, 1962–79
Starting in the mid-1970s Moscow and Washington increasingly clashed over areas far removed from the…
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Chapter 11: The Vietnam Wars, 1945–79
The war in Vietnam is undoubtedly the best-known military conflict of the post-1945 era. The…
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Chapter 12: Neutralism, development and the rise of the Third World, 1945–2024
Not all states opted to participate in the Cold War. In Europe a few small…
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Chapter 13: The ‘Developmental States’: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, 1945–2024
The history of non-communist East Asia must be understood in terms of the influence of…
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Chapter 14: The People’s Republic of China and North Korea: Ideology and nationalism, 1949–2024
To understand the positions the PRC adopted under the leadership of Mao Zedong and the…
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Chapter 15: The United States and Latin America, 1945–2024
American economic and political dominance of the Western Hemisphere had been well established in the…
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Chapter 16: Africa: Decolonization and independence, 1945–2024
The post-war period saw independence come to Africa. This proved to be a drawn-out process…
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Chapter 17: The Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1948–2024
This chapter looks at the Arab–Israeli conflict. It starts with an examination of the root…
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Chapter 18: The Rise of Political Islam, 1928–2024
This chapter looks at the conditions that paved the way for the rise of political…
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Chapter 19: The End of the Cold War and the ‘New World Order’, 1980–2000
The Cold War came to a sudden and unexpected end in the early 1990s. This…
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Chapter 20: The Rise of a New Europe: The History of European Integration, 1945–2024
European integration after World War II represents one of the most significant transformations of the…
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Chapter 21: The Rise of Human Rights in International Politics
The last decades of the twentieth century appeared to mark the entry of a new…
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Chapter 22: US Decline in a Globalized World?
In the middle of the second decade of the twenty-first century, the United States, due…