International Politics Since World War 2 A Short History

Author : Charles L. Robertson
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765636362
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Politics Since World War II written by Charles L. Robertson and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1997-03-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past half-century has seen many hopes raised and some dashed, a succession of fears and false alarms, and both triumphs and calamities that were almost entirely unexpected. This work offers a short but sweeping history of world politics since 1945: America's postwar pre-eminence and the hopes that attended the creation of the United Nations; the Cold War and the emergence of a volatile Third World; economic transformations and the twin threat of nuclear and ecological disaster; the crumbling of the Soviet system and the short-lived promise of a peaceful, prosperous and democratic new world. The author describes these momentous changes concisely in an effort to show how we got here from there and what we might have learned along the way.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Politics Since World War 2.: A Short History written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Austin Carson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691204128
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Wars written by Austin Carson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.S.-occupied Iraq. Investigating what governments keep secret during wars and why, Austin Carson argues that leaders maintain the secrecy of state involvement as a response to the persistent concern of limiting war. Keeping interventions “backstage” helps control escalation dynamics, insulating leaders from domestic pressures while communicating their interest in keeping a war contained. Carson shows that covert interventions can help control escalation, but they are almost always detected by other major powers. However, the shared value of limiting war can lead adversaries to keep secret the interventions they detect, as when American leaders concealed clashes with Soviet pilots during the Korean War. Escalation concerns can also cause leaders to ignore covert interventions that have become an open secret. From Nazi Germany’s role in the Spanish Civil War to American covert operations during the Vietnam War, Carson presents new insights about some of the most influential conflicts of the twentieth century. Parting the curtain on the secret side of modern war, Secret Wars provides important lessons about how rival state powers collude and compete, and the ways in which they avoid outright military confrontations.

Author : Wayne C. McWilliams
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781555877880
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Since 1945 written by Wayne C. McWilliams and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 1997 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors argue for the appropriateness of viewing the era after World War II as a separate historical epoch because of seven major consequences of the war. Specifically these were the end of Europe as the center of international power, the rise of the United States and the Soviet Union to superpower status, the emergence of the Cold War, the beginnings of the nuclear age, the rise of nationalism and independence movements in Asia and Africa, and a renewed effort to use international organizations to secure peace. Some of the topics treated include the origins and development of the Cold War in Europe and Asia, the development of Arab and Israeli nationalism, the Sino-Soviet split of the 1960s, the Vietnam War, Third World debt, South African apartheid, the rise of militant Islam, Japan's emergence as an economic power, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780471727453
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Politics Since World War I written by Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John B. Quigley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ruses for War written by John B. Quigley and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quigley analyzes each instance of military intervention abroad by the United States since World War II, from the perspective of what the government told the public--or did not tell the public.

Author : John W. Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199693064
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Relations Since 1945 written by John W. Young and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Relations since 1945 offers undergraduate students a comprehensive and accessible introduction to global political history since World War II. Clearly structured, and with a balance of description and analysis, the text is also supported by a range of helpful learning features and an accompanying website.

Author : Martin H. Folly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810856069
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy from World War I Through World War II written by Martin H. Folly and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The period from the beginning of World War I to the end of World War II was one of the most significant in the history of the United States. Twice the nation was drawn into "foreign entanglements" - wars it initially thought were of no concern and therefore tried to steer clear of - only to realize it could not stand aside. With each war, the United States geared up in record time, entered the fray, and was crucial to the outcome. Each tested the American people and their leaders, and in each case the country came out of the conflagration stronger than before and emerged as a world leader." "Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy from World War I through World War II relates the events of this crucial period in U.S. history through a chronology. an introductory essay, and more than 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on key people, places, events, institutions. and organizations." --Book Jacket.

Author : Martin Folly
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461672414
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of U.S. Diplomacy from World War I through World War II written by Martin Folly and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period from the outset of World War I to the end of World War II was among the most significant in the history of the United States. Twice it was drawn into "foreign entanglements"— wars it initially thought were no concern of its own and of which it tried to steer clear—only to realize that it could not stand aside. With each one, it geared up in record time, entered the fray massively, and was crucial to the outcome. Each war tested the American people and their leaders, and in each case the country came out of the conflagration stronger than before-and even more important-yet stronger relative to other countries than it had ever been. This was the period when the United States became a world leader. The A to Z of U.S. Diplomacy from World War I through World War II relates the events of this crucial period in U.S. history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on key persons, places, events, institutions, and organizations.

Author : Vijay Prashad
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620977656
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Darker Nations written by Vijay Prashad and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author In this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third World—with a new preface by the author for its fifteenth anniversary—internationally renowned historian Vijay Prashad conjures what Publishers Weekly calls “a vital assertion of an alternative future.” The Darker Nations, praised by critics as a welcome antidote to apologists for empire, has defined for a generation of scholars, activists, and dreamers what it is to imagine a more just international order and continues to offer lessons for the radical political projects of today. With the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the rise of India and China on the global scene, this paradigm-shifting book of groundbreaking scholarship helps us envision the future of the Global South by restoring to memory the vibrant though flawed idea of the Third World whose demise, Prashad ultimately argues, has produced an impoverished and asymmetrical international political arena. No other book on the Third World—as a utopian idea and a global movement—can speak so effectively and engagingly to our troubled times.