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Preface: Grasping Global History |
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PART 1 TOWARDS 1945: ENDING WORLD WAR, BUILDING PEACE |
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1 | (38) |
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3 | (9) |
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12 | (14) |
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3 Outcomes and Anticipations |
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26 | (13) |
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PART 2 1945-1955: MAKING A COLD PEACE |
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39 | (52) |
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42 | (12) |
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5 The United Nations and the United States |
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54 | (12) |
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66 | (6) |
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72 | (7) |
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79 | (12) |
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PART 3 1955-1965: TO THE BRINK AND BACK |
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91 | (60) |
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9 Superpowers and Subordinates: The Middle East and Europe |
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96 | (13) |
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10 Cross-Continental Confrontations: Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev |
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109 | (10) |
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11 Africa: Emergences and Emergencies |
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119 | (17) |
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136 | (15) |
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PART 4 1965-1975: OLD PATTERNS AND NEW PERMUTATIONS |
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151 | (70) |
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155 | (14) |
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14 Superpowers Challenged |
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169 | (15) |
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15 Security and Co-operation in Europe |
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184 | (10) |
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16 Overlapping Linkages: A Mediterranean World |
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194 | (15) |
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209 | (12) |
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PART 5 COMING TO CONCLUSIONS: 1975-1989/91 |
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221 | (74) |
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18 Europeans: Identifying a Common Home? |
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224 | (16) |
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19 The Middle East: Putting it to Rights? |
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240 | (20) |
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20 A Question of Latitude: `North' and `South' |
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260 | (2) |
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21 Afghanistan to Sri Lanka: `South Asia'? |
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262 | (11) |
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22 East Asia/Pacific: Flexing Muscles? |
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273 | (15) |
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23 Gorbachev and Reagan: Turning Point, 1985-89 |
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288 | (7) |
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PART 6 1991-2011: NEW WORLD ORDERS? |
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295 | |
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24 Superpowers: Rethinking Required |
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299 | (15) |
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25 The Middle East: Still at the Centre |
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314 | (12) |
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26 Identifying Multipolar Complexity |
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Index |
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Acknowledgements |
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Select Chronology |
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Preface: Grasping Global History |
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PART 1 Towards 1945: Ending World War, Building Peace |
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1 | (38) |
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3 | (9) |
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5 | (2) |
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7 | (1) |
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Mastery in the Middle East |
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8 | (4) |
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12 | (14) |
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Egypt and its visitors: November 1943 |
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12 | (1) |
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Chinese debut: Chiang Kai-shek |
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13 | (2) |
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Imperial emissary? Churchill |
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15 | (4) |
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19 | (4) |
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Tehran, November-December 1943: Stalin's stake |
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23 | (3) |
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3 Outcomes and Anticipations |
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26 | (13) |
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26 | (2) |
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The Soviet Union: turning the world around? |
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28 | (1) |
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East Asia: resuming the old order? |
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29 | (4) |
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The USA: making `one world'? |
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33 | (5) |
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38 | (1) |
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PART 2 1945-1955: Making A Cold Peace |
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39 | (52) |
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42 | (12) |
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42 | (2) |
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`Germany', Britain and France: creating (Western) European unity |
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44 | (3) |
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The Soviet Union: creating a people's Europe? |
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47 | (3) |
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50 | (1) |
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51 | (3) |
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5 The United Nations and the United States |
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54 | (12) |
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54 | (1) |
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Reconstructing and developing |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (2) |
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58 | (1) |
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The USA: assuming global responsibility |
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58 | (2) |
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Showing exceptional leadership |
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60 | (1) |
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Projecting hope, feeling fear |
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61 | (1) |
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Truman's Doctrine: guarantees without limit? |
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62 | (4) |
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66 | (6) |
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Egypt, Syria and Iraq: Nasser stirring |
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66 | (1) |
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Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Algeria: standing up |
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67 | (2) |
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Palestine and Israel: not giving ground |
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69 | (1) |
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70 | (2) |
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72 | (7) |
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Dismantling the British Raj |
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72 | (1) |
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India and Pakistan: making and unmaking |
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73 | (3) |
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Nehru's World: between Cambridge and Delhi |
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76 | (3) |
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79 | (12) |
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79 | (1) |
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Korea: peninsular problem - global test-case? |
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80 | (2) |
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South-East Asia: departures, divisions and outside `solutions' |
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82 | (2) |
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84 | (2) |
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Third worlds and other worlds: bonding in Bandung |
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86 | (3) |
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89 | (2) |
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PART 3 1955-1965: To The Brink And Back |
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91 | (60) |
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9 Superpowers and Subordinates: The Middle East and Europe |
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96 | (13) |
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96 | (1) |
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Suez: disarray of the West |
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97 | (2) |
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Suez: conclusions and implications |
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99 | (4) |
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`This is Hungary calling' |
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103 | (2) |
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Rome: European Community matters |
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105 | (1) |
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Moscow: dropping Stalinism, preserving the Soviet bloc? |
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106 | (3) |
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10 Cross-Continental Confrontations: Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev |
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109 | (10) |
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Cuban collisions: Castro and Kennedy |
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109 | (2) |
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Berlin walled in: Khrushchev and Kennedy |
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111 | (2) |
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Cuba: blinking at the brink |
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113 | (1) |
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Onlookers: holding breath and brooding |
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114 | (5) |
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11 Africa: Emergences and Emergencies |
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119 | (17) |
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119 | (1) |
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Ghana and Nigeria: African pilots? |
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120 | (4) |
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Senegal, Ivory Coast and Guinea: implementing negritude |
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124 | (2) |
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126 | (1) |
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Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Kenya: dilemmas on the Horn |
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127 | (2) |
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Central Africa: breaking up |
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129 | (1) |
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South Africa: resisting the wind |
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130 | (2) |
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Cuba and Portuguese Africa: return of the native? |
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132 | (1) |
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African unity: one voice, but many tongues |
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133 | (3) |
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136 | (15) |
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China: still at the margins? |
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136 | (2) |
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China and India: Himalayan rumblings? |
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138 | (1) |
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China: east wind blowing? |
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139 | (1) |
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India: new principles, new principals? |
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140 | (1) |
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Pakistan: military direction |
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141 | (1) |
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Japan: returning to `normal' |
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142 | (2) |
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Searching for `South-East Asia' |
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144 | (6) |
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150 | (1) |
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PART 4 1965-1975: Old Patterns And New Permutations |
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151 | (70) |
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155 | (14) |
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Indian democracy: a state of emergency? |
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155 | (2) |
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Pakistan/Bangladesh: dissolving union |
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157 | (2) |
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China: cultural alienation, diplomatic accommodation? |
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159 | (5) |
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Japan: re-engaging and remodelling? |
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164 | (1) |
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South-East Asia: associated - up to a point |
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165 | (1) |
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166 | (3) |
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14 Superpowers Challenged |
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169 | (15) |
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The world from the White House: the US mission |
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169 | (2) |
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The USA and `Indo-China': entanglement and endgame |
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171 | (4) |
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The world from the Kremlin: the Soviet mission |
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175 | (2) |
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The Soviet Union and socialist countries: solidarity without sovereignty? |
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177 | (7) |
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15 Security and Co-operation in Europe |
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184 | (10) |
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France: upheaval and order |
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185 | (2) |
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`Germany': neighbourly relations? |
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187 | (3) |
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Britain: coming home to roost? |
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190 | (2) |
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Helsinki `Final Act', 1975 |
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192 | (2) |
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16 Overlapping Linkages: A Mediterranean World |
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194 | (15) |
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195 | (1) |
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`Palestine': war and its aftermath, 1967 |
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196 | (4) |
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`Palestine': war and its aftermath, 1973 |
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200 | (1) |
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Greece, Turkey, Libya and Algeria: military orders |
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201 | (4) |
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Oil's message: Algiers, 1973 |
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205 | (2) |
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The Shah's Iran: crowning achievement? |
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207 | (2) |
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209 | (12) |
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Claiming identity: francophone authenticite |
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209 | (2) |
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Claiming identity: anglophone authenticity |
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211 | (2) |
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Rhodesia: unilateral pilot |
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213 | (1) |
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Portugal in Africa: first in, last out |
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214 | (2) |
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South Africa: disturbing the peace |
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216 | (1) |
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Central/East/North-East Africa: disputing neighbourhoods |
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217 | (2) |
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African Unity: aspiration and reality |
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219 | (1) |
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220 | (1) |
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PART 5 1975-1989/91: Coming To Conclusions |
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221 | (74) |
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18 Europeans: Identifying a Common Home? |
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224 | (16) |
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Gorbachev: peripheral figure to core player |
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224 | (3) |
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European crossroads: Poland and a Pope in Rome |
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227 | (2) |
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A funeral in Rome: Communism and Catholicism |
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229 | (2) |
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Britain and the Soviet Union: business opportunities? |
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231 | (1) |
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Northern entrants: Britain, Denmark and Ireland `join Europe' |
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231 | (2) |
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Southern entrants: Greece, Portugal and Spain `join Europe' |
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233 | (2) |
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Integrating and devolving? States, nations and regions |
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235 | (1) |
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France, Britain and Federal Germany: big players |
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236 | (4) |
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19 The Middle East: Putting it to Rights? |
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240 | (10) |
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240 | (1) |
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Iran: rights and revolutions |
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241 | (3) |
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Palestine: promising land? |
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244 | (1) |
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245 | (5) |
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20 A Question of Latitude: `North' and `South' |
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250 | (12) |
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250 | (2) |
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South America: shifting positions |
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252 | (3) |
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Cuba in Africa: North/South meets East/West |
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255 | (1) |
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African kaleidoscope: no centre of gravity? |
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256 | (6) |
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21 Afghanistan to Sri Lanka: `South Asia'? |
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262 | (11) |
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262 | (2) |
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India: Indira's red carpet |
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264 | (2) |
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Pakistan: different directors, different directions |
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266 | (3) |
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269 | (4) |
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22 East Asia/Pacific: Flexing Muscles? |
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273 | (15) |
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273 | (4) |
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China: consolidating our common home |
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277 | (2) |
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Japan: the constraints of success |
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279 | (2) |
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Other `East Asias': making their own mark |
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281 | (7) |
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23 Gorbachev and Reagan: Turning Point, 1985-89 |
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288 | (7) |
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293 | (2) |
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PART 6 1991-2011: New World Orders? |
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|
295 | |
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24 Superpowers: Rethinking Required |
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299 | (15) |
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New epoch? Bush and Gorbachev in Malta |
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299 | (1) |
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300 | (1) |
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301 | (1) |
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302 | (1) |
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303 | (2) |
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`The former Soviet Union': restructuring |
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305 | (4) |
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The USA: lonely eminence? |
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309 | (5) |
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25 The Middle East: Still at the Centre |
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314 | (12) |
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314 | (1) |
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Iraq: what mission accomplished? |
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315 | (2) |
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Egypt and Syria: awaiting freedom? |
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317 | (1) |
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Israel/Palestine: no lasting accords |
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318 | (2) |
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A world utterly changed? 9/11/2001 |
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320 | (1) |
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Enduring freedom's ambiguities: Kabul to Cairo, Tripoli to Damascus, Algiers to Tehran |
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321 | (5) |
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26 Identifying Multipolar Complexity |
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326 | |
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World in one: Barack Obama |
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326 | (1) |
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Africa: seeing hope, experiencing tragedy |
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327 | (4) |
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Europe: only so far and no further? |
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331 | (3) |
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India: now punching its weight? |
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334 | (3) |
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337 | (2) |
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China: east wind blowing a gale |
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339 | (3) |
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Japan: buffeted and bewildered? |
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342 | (2) |
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344 | (1) |
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344 | (1) |
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345 | |