Umfang:
xiii, 377 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
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25 cm
ISBN:
9781138999015
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9781138999008
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1138999008
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1138999016
Anmerkung:
Weiterführende Literaturangaben. - Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 356-359. - Register
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1 Origins of the Cold War -- The orthodox or traditional -- The revisionist -- The post-revisionist -- 2 Cold War: 1949-53 -- The People's Republic of China -- The Korean War -- Eastern Europe -- Spies -- NSC-68 -- Germany -- Culture -- 3 To the brink and back: 1953-62 -- Lost opportunities -- Khrushchev takes over -- Khrushchev and China -- Eisenhower's New Look -- The Geneva spirit; Poland and Hungary in 1956 -- The Berlin crises -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Khrushchev goes -- Culture -- 4 The US and the Soviet Union in the Third World -- The oil weapon -- The Soviets rediscover the Third World -- Bandung and the Non-aligned Movement -- US interventions in the Third World -- Iran -- Iran's nuclear programme -- Syria -- Egypt -- Africa -- Latin America -- 5 The Sino-Soviet schism -- The Moscow conference -- Nuclear weapons -- The great proletarian Cultural Revolution -- Conflict on the Ussuri -- 6 Cuba, Vietnam and Indonesia -- Vietnam -- Indonesia -- 7 The war of cultures -- Journalism, architecture and sport -- Religion -- 8 The Prague Spring -- 9 Détente: 1969-79 -- The Middle East -- Ostpolitik -- Disarmament -- The Helsinki Accord -- Nixon and China -- Africa -- Ethiopia and Somalia -- The end of détente -- Laos -- North Korea -- The challenge of Poland -- 10 The Islamic challenge: Iran and Afghanistan -- Afghanistan -- 11 Cambodia-Kampuchea -- 12 Post-détente: 1979-85 -- Secret wars -- Soviet youth culture -- The Third World -- The Iran-Contra affair -- Andropov and Reagan: missed opportunities -- Oleg Gordievsky -- China -- The Iran-Iraq War -- 13 Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War -- Gorbachev and Bush -- Gorbachev and Europe: our common home -- The home front -- Chernobyl -- The 19th Party Conference -- China -- Eastern Europe -- Poland -- Hungary -- The German Democratic Republic -- Czechoslovakia -- Bulgaria -- Romania -- Albania -- Yugoslavia -- Vietnam -- Gorbachev faces more challenges -- The Gulf War -- Syria -- Russia undermines the Union -- The last summit -- The attempted coup -- 14 The judgement -- Why did the Cold War between the superpowers emerge in the years to 1953? -- Why did the Cold War come to an end? -- The Chinese explanation -- Near misses -- Graphs -- 15 The post-Cold War world -- Russia -- The economy -- Foreign policy -- Japan -- The US -- China -- The crisis in the West -- Religion -- Women -- Overview -- BRICS -- China in Africa -- Chinese decision making -- The Russian and American pivots to Asia -- The South China Sea -- North Korea -- Cuba.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781315213309
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-315-21330-9
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Ost-West-Konflikt
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Internationaler Konflikt
;
Bewaffneter Konflikt
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Internationale Politik
