TY - BOOK AU - McWilliams,Wayne C. AU - Piotrowski,Harry TI - The World Since 1945: A History of International Relations SN - 9781685857455 PY - 2022///] CY - Boulder : PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers, KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Introduction --; Part 1. The Origins of the Cold War --; Introduction --; 1. The End of World War II and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age --; 2. The Cold War Institutionalized --; 3. The Cold War in Asia: A Change of Venue --; 4. Confrontation and Coexistence --; Part 2. Nationalism and the End of Colonialism --; Introduction --; 5. Decolonization in Asia --; 6. Decolonization in Africa --; 7. The Middle East: The Arab-Israeli Conflict --; Part 3. The Shifting Sands of Global Power --; Introduction --; 8. The Communist World After Stalin --; 9. The War in Indochina --; 10. Détente and the End of Bipolarity --; Part 4. The Third World --; Introduction --; 11. Problems of Economic Development in the Third World --; 12. Africa --; 13. Latin America --; 14. The People’s Republic of China and Taiwan --; 15. The Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia --; Part 5. The Emergence of a New Landscape --; Introduction --; 16. Japan and South Korea as Economic Powers --; 17. The Globalization of the Economy --; 18. Russia: The Legacy of Soviet Empire --; 19. The Proliferating Nuclear Arms Race --; 20. The Emergence of Political Islam --; 21. September 11, Afghanistan, and Iraq --; 22. The Trajectory of the World Since 1945: A Summary --; Index --; About the Book; restricted access N2 - Traces the major political, economic, and ideological patterns that have evolved in the global arena from the end of World War II to the present day UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685857455 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685857455 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685857455/original ER -