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| adam_text | Contents
List of illustrations
xiv
Notes on authors
xvii
Acknowledgements
xviii
Note on the text
xx
List of abbreviations
xxi
INTRODUCTION
1
The second edition
1
Introduction to the twentieth century
2
1.
GREAT POWER RIVALRY AND THE WORLD WAR,
1900-1917 5
Introduction
5
The Great Powers, power politics and the states system
6
The long-term causes of the First World War
15
From one crisis to the next,
1905-13 21
1914:
decisions for war
24
The triple stalemate
26
Conclusion
29
Recommended reading
30
2.
THE SEARCH FOR EUROPEAN STABILITY,
1917-29 32
Introduction
32
The new diplomacy
33
The armistice
37
The Paris peace settlement
39
The Paris peace settlement in Central and Eastern Europe
44
The implementation of the peace
46
The Locarno era
50
Conclusion
54
Recommended reading
54
3.
JAPAN, CHINA AND THE ORIGINS OF THE PACIFIC WAR,
1900-41 58
Introduction
58
The First World War in East Asia
59
The Washington Conference
62
Chinese nationalism and the Northern Expedition
64
vii
CONTENTS
The Manchurian Crisis
66
Japan s Monroe Doctrine for East Asia
69
The Sino-Japanese War
71
Towards the Pacific War
74
Conclusion
16
Recommended reading
78
4.
THE EUROPEAN COLONIAL EMPIRES,
1900-45 81
Introduction
81
Empires and power
82
Ireland and the British Dominions
88
Empire and nationalism in the Middle East
90
India in crisis
95
Rationalization and resistance in South-East Asia
98
The colonial empires in Africa
100
The Second World War and empire
102
Conclusion
104
Recommended reading
105
5.
THE ORIGINS OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT,
1900-48 107
Introduction
107
The origins and development of Zionism
108
Palestinian nationalism
110
The twice-promised land 111
The mandate and British policy
113
Palestine and the Second World War
116
Partition and the end of the mandate
118
Arab and Zionist institution-building
121
The
1948
war
125
Conclusion
129
Recommended reading
130
6.
GOOD NEIGHBORS ? THE UNITED STATES AND THE
AMERICAS,
1900-45 133
Introduction
133
The Monroe Doctrine and the imperial thrust
134
The Spanish—American War
136
Theodore Roosevelt and the American empire
137
Woodrow Wilson, the First World War and the Americas
139
Wilsonian visions defeated
141
From boom to bust
142
From gunboat diplomacy to the Good Neighbor policy
144
Pan-Americanism and the approach of war
148
The Second World War and the Monroe Doctrine
150
viii
CONTENTS
Conclusion
152
Recommended reading
153
7.
THE PATH TO EUROPEAN WAR,
1930-39
155
Introduction
155
The dual crisis
156
The collapse of the Weimar Republic
158
Revolution and expansion
161
Diplomacy and deterrence
165
Isolation and co-existence
172
From Munich to European war
176
Conclusion
183
Recommended reading
185
8.
THE SECOND WORLD WAR,
1940-45
188
Introduction
188
From European war to World War
189
The Axis at war
196
The Grand Alliance at war
201
The collapse of the Grand Alliance
207
Conclusion
211
Recommended reading
213
9.
THE FIRST COLD WAR IN EUROPE,
1945-61
216
Introduction
216
The German question
218
From take-overs to conformity: the USSR and Eastern Europe
220
The United States, containment and Western Europe
224
On every front
230
Stability and revolts
232
A wasting asset? Nuclear weapons
236
Culture and propaganda
238
The Berlin Wall
240
Conclusion
242
Recommended reading
243
10.
ASIA IN TURMOIL: NATIONALISM, REVOLUTION AND THE
RISE OF THE COLD WAR,
1945-53 247
Introduction
247
The end of the Raj
248
Nationalism and independence in South-East Asia
250
The Chinese Civil War
253
China, Japan and the Cold War in Asia
258
The Korean War
261
ix
CONTENTS
Asia and the consequences of the Korean War
265
Conclusion
267
Recommended reading
268
11.
FROM COLD
WARTO
DETENTE,
1962-79
271
Introduction
271
The Cuban Missile Crisis
273
Towards the world of MAD
275
France, Germany and the origins of European
détente
277
Trouble in the Soviet bloc
279
Triangular diplomacy and the two
détentes
281
Détente
in trouble: Watergate, Angola and the Horn of Africa
283
The death of
détente:
SALT II and Afghanistan
287
Conclusion
290
Recommended reading
292
12.
THE VIETNAM WARS,
1945-79
295
Introduction
295
The origins of the conflict and the first Indochina War
296
Divided Vietnam and American nation-building
298
The Americanization of the Vietnam War
301
Peace and unification
306
Indochina in turmoil after
1975
309
Conclusion
311
Recommended readine
312
13.
NEUTRALISM, DEVELOPMENT AND THE RISE OF THE
THIRD WORLD,
1945-2007 315
Introduction
315
Neutrality in Cold War Europe
316
India and the path to Bandung
318
The birth of the Non-Aligned Movement
322
Development and the Group of
77 325
The fragmentation of the Third World
328
Conclusion
332
Recommended reading
333
14.
THE DEVELOPMENTAL STATES : JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA
AND TAIWAN,
1945 - 2007 335
Introduction
335
The American occupation of Japan
336
The
1955
system and the revision of the Security Treaty
338
High-speed growth and its discontents
342
Japan as an economic superpower
346
CONTENTS
The troubled nineties
349
Japan s neighbours: South Korea and Taiwan
350
Conclusion
353
Recommended reading
354
15.
THE PEOPLE S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND NORTH KOREA:
IDEOLOGY AND NATIONALISM,
1949-2007 357
Introduction
357
The rise and decline of the
Sino-Soviet
alliance
358
Revolutionary China and the Third World
363
The opening to America and the death of Mao
366
Deng and the Four Modernizations
368
Tiananmen and after: causes and consequences
370
North Korea: the last Stalinist state
372
Conclusion
375
Recommended reading
376
16.
THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA,
1945-2007 379
Introduction
379
Hemispheric unity, internal dislocation
380
Guatemala
383
The Cuban Revolution
385
The Alliance for Progress
387
Revolutionaries and reformers from Chile to Nicaragua
391
Into the new millennium: an age of uncertainty
396
Conclusion
400
Recommended reading
401
17.
AFRICA: DECOLONIZATION AND INDEPENDENCE,
1945-2007 404
Introduction
404
The end of empire
405
The rise and fall of pan-Africanism
409
Imperialism and white rule in southern Africa
411
The Cold War in Africa
413
The end of apartheid in South Africa
416
The African state and the legacy of empire
418
Poverty, resources and the troubled road to democracy
423
Conclusion
426
Recommended reading
427
18.
THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT,
1949-2007 429
Introduction
429
The
1956
Suez-Sinai campaign
430
The
1967
June War
433
XI
CONTENTS
The
1973
October War
434
The
1982
Lebanon War
438
The Palestinian armed struggle from the
1948
naqba to the
1987
intifada
440
The peace process, its collapse and attempts to revive it
442
The
2006
Lebanon War
448
Conclusion
452
Recommended reading
453
19.
THE RISE OF POLITICAL ISLAM,
1928 - 2000 456
Introduction
456
The rise of political Islam
457
Islamist movements: aims, strategies and political philosophies
459
The
1979
Islamic revolution in Iran
463
Fundamentalist Islam: Afghanistan and the Taliban
466
Islamic resistance: Hizb allah, Hamas and
Läskar
Jihad
468
Transnational
Islamism,
international jihadism, global
Islamism
and the al-Qaeda phenomenon
472
Conclusion
475
Recommended reading
476
20.
THE END OF THE COLD WAR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER ,
1980-2000 480
Introduction
480
The superpowers and the Third World
481
The disintegration of the Soviet bloc
483
The First Gulf War
489
The unipolar moment: America at the apex
491
The new world order and ethnic conflict
494
Conclusion
498
Recommended reading
499
21.
THE RISE OF A NEW EUROPE: THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN
INTEGRATION,
1945 - 2007 501
Introduction
501
The idea of Europe
502
From the Second World War to the Treaty of Rome
503
Widening and deepening in the shadow of the Cold War
505
An ever-wider Europe and the conundrums of success
508
The EEC/EU as inspiration: integration in Asia and the
Americas
514
Conclusion
518
Recommended reading
520
XII
CONTENTS
22.
THE WAR ON
TERROR IN
A GLOBALIZED
WORLD 522
Introduction
522
From
9/11
to Iraqi Freedom
523
Backfire: Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terror
527
The challenge of nuclear proliferation
530
Americas conundrums: hyperpower humbled
532
AI-Qaeda
since
9/11 534
The war on terror in South-East Asia
535
Conclusion: where to next?
538
Recommended reading
540
Glossary
542
Bibliography
561
Index
601
xiii
Illustrations
Maps
1.1
Europe
in
1914 7
2.1
Territorial changes in Europe
after the
First World
War
35
3.1
Japanese
expansion
in East Asia until
1939 60
4.1
The British Empire in
1922 83
4.2
The Middle East in
1922 91
4.3
Africain
1922 101
5.1
UN partition plan for Palestine,
1947 120
5.2
Post-war Israel,
1948 127
6.1
US interventions in the Caribbean and Central America,
1898-1941 146
7.1
German expansion,
1935—39 167
8.1
German expansion in Europe,
1939-40 189
8.2
Japanese expansion in Asia,
1940^42 198
9.1
The Cold War in Europe,
1955 234
10.1
Decolonization in South and South-East Asia
251
10.2
The Korean War
264
12.1
The Vietnam War in the
1
960s
302
16.1
The United States and Latin America since
1945 382
17.1
Decolonization in Africa
406
18.1
The Six-Day War
435
18.2
The West Bank in
2000 445
19.1
The Muslim world
461
20.1
The states of the former Soviet Union after
1991 487
20.2
The former Yugoslavia
496
21.1
EEC/EU enlargements
511
Figure
1.1
Defence expenditure of the European Great Powers,
1900-13
xiv
ILLUSTRATIONS
Tables
1.1
Total populations
of the Great Powers,
1890-1913 8
5.1
British high commissioners for Palestine,
1920—48 114
9.1
Aid allocated under the European Recovery Program
227
11.1
Détente
and the Soviet-American nuclear balance: strategic
launcher parity
287
11.2
Nuclear warheads (ICBMs and SLBMs) parity
287
14.1
Japanese economic growth,
1955-65 342
Boxes
Debates and controversies
Debating the origins of the First World War
29
Debating peacemaking in
1919 55
Debating the intelligence failure at Pearl Harbor
77
Debating the origins of modem Western imperialism
84
Debating the
1948
war
128
Debating the origins of American interventionism
147
Debating ideology and foreign policy in the
1
930s
184
Debating why the Allies won the Second World War
212
Debating the origins of the Cold War
229
Debating PRC-American relations and the lost chance thesis
259
Debating the Cuban Missile Crisis
274
Debating the rise and collapse of
détente
291
Debating Americas Vietnam War
308
Defining the Third World
319
Debating Japans economic miracle
344
Debating the
Sino-Soviet
split
362
Debating the impact of the Cold War in the Western Hemisphere
399
Debating the African state
421
Debating the Cold War in the Middle East
450
Debating the state strategies and responses to the Islamist challenge
462
Debating the end of the Cold War
486
Where scholars disagree: realists, liberal intergovernmentalists,
functionalists and federalists
519
Documents
2.1
Extracts from the Treaty of Versailles
42
5.1
Letter from McMahon to Sharif Hussein,
24
October
1915 112
5.2
The Balfour Declaration,
2
November
1917 113
7.1
The Anglo-German declaration,
30
September
1938 181
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ILLUSTRATIONS
15.1 Maos
conversation
with
Soviet
ambassador, Pavel Yudin,
31
March
1956 360
16.1
George Kennan on the United States and Latin America,
March
1950 383
22.1
The Bush Doctrine
-
Excerpts from the National Security Strategy
of the United States,
22
September
2002 526
Plates
1.1
Kaiser
Wilhelm
II and his chief military, naval and political
advisers,
1910 20
2.1
Versailles Peace Conference attendees, France,
1919 40
3.1
Washington Conference, USA, November
1921 63
4.1 Mahatma Gandhi,
January
1922 97
5.1
Declaration of the State of Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel,
14
May
1948 126
6.1
US marines are led by a guide to look for bandits, Haiti,
1919 141
7.1
Munich Conference, Germany,
30
September
1938 180
8.1
The Big Three at the Teheran Conference, December
1943 204
9.1
The Berlin Airlift, Germany,
1948 219
10.1
Refugees in China, May
1946 257
11.1
Nixon and Brezhnev in Moscow,
31
May
1972 281
12.1
The
Tet
Offensive, January
1968 305
13.1
Group of
77
Conference, Dohar, Qatar,
15
June
2005 331
14.1
Neon lights in the Ginza district of Tokyo, Japan,
1998 348
15.1
Mao and Nixon, Beijing, China, February
1972 367
16.1
Ernesto Che Guevara,
17
December
1964 390
17.1
Demonstrators in Cape Town, South Africa, October
1976 417
18.1 Moshe Dayan,
Yitzhak Rabin and
Uzi
Narkiss enter the Old
City of Jerusalem, June
1967 436
19.1
Indonesian police, Surabaya, Indonesia, May
2000 472
20.1
Reagan and Gorbachev, Geneva summit, Switzerland,
November
1985 484
21.1
Kohl and Mitterrand, Paris, September
1992 509
22.1
New York,
11
September
2001 524
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Contents
List of illustrations
xiv
Notes on authors
xvii
Acknowledgements
xviii
Note on the text
xx
List of abbreviations
xxi
INTRODUCTION
1
The second edition
1
Introduction to the twentieth century
2
1.
GREAT POWER RIVALRY AND THE WORLD WAR,
1900-1917 5
Introduction
5
The Great Powers, power politics and the states system
6
The long-term causes of the First World War
15
From one crisis to the next,
1905-13 21
1914:
decisions for war
24
The triple stalemate
26
Conclusion
29
Recommended reading
30
2.
THE SEARCH FOR EUROPEAN STABILITY,
1917-29 32
Introduction
32
The 'new diplomacy'
33
The armistice
37
The Paris peace settlement
39
The Paris peace settlement in Central and Eastern Europe
44
The implementation of the peace
46
The Locarno era
50
Conclusion
54
Recommended reading
54
3.
JAPAN, CHINA AND THE ORIGINS OF THE PACIFIC WAR,
1900-41 58
Introduction
58
The First World War in East Asia
59
The Washington Conference
62
Chinese nationalism and the Northern Expedition
64
vii
CONTENTS
The Manchurian Crisis
66
Japan's 'Monroe Doctrine' for East Asia
69
The Sino-Japanese War
71
Towards the Pacific War
74
Conclusion
16
Recommended reading
78
4.
THE EUROPEAN COLONIAL EMPIRES,
1900-45 81
Introduction
81
Empires and power
82
Ireland and the British Dominions
88
Empire and nationalism in the Middle East
90
India in crisis
95
Rationalization and resistance in South-East Asia
98
The colonial empires in Africa
100
The Second World War and empire
102
Conclusion
104
Recommended reading
105
5.
THE ORIGINS OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT,
1900-48 107
Introduction
107
The origins and development of Zionism
108
Palestinian nationalism
110
The twice-promised land 111
The mandate and British policy
113
Palestine and the Second World War
116
Partition and the end of the mandate
118
Arab and Zionist institution-building
121
The
1948
war
125
Conclusion
129
Recommended reading
130
6.
'GOOD NEIGHBORS'? THE UNITED STATES AND THE
AMERICAS,
1900-45 133
Introduction
133
The Monroe Doctrine and the imperial thrust
134
The Spanish—American War
136
Theodore Roosevelt and the American empire
137
Woodrow Wilson, the First World War and the Americas
139
Wilsonian visions defeated
141
From boom to bust
142
From gunboat diplomacy to the 'Good Neighbor' policy
144
Pan-Americanism and the approach of war
148
The Second World War and the Monroe Doctrine
150
viii
CONTENTS
Conclusion
152
Recommended reading
153
7.
THE PATH TO EUROPEAN WAR,
1930-39
155
Introduction
155
The dual crisis
156
The collapse of the "Weimar Republic
158
Revolution and expansion
161
Diplomacy and deterrence
165
Isolation and co-existence
172
From Munich to European war
176
Conclusion
183
Recommended reading
185
8.
THE SECOND WORLD WAR,
1940-45
188
Introduction
188
From European war to World War
189
The Axis at war
196
The Grand Alliance at war
201
The collapse of the Grand Alliance
207
Conclusion
211
Recommended reading
213
9.
THE 'FIRST'COLD WAR IN EUROPE,
1945-61
216
Introduction
216
The German question
218
From take-overs to conformity: the USSR and Eastern Europe
220
The United States, containment and Western Europe
224
On every front
230
Stability and revolts
232
A wasting asset? Nuclear weapons
236
Culture and propaganda
238
The Berlin Wall
240
Conclusion
242
Recommended reading
243
10.
ASIA IN TURMOIL: NATIONALISM, REVOLUTION AND THE
RISE OF THE COLD WAR,
1945-53 247
Introduction
247
The end of the Raj
248
Nationalism and independence in South-East Asia
250
The Chinese Civil War
253
China, Japan and the Cold War in Asia
258
The Korean War
261
ix
CONTENTS
Asia and the consequences of the Korean War
265
Conclusion
267
Recommended reading
268
11.
FROM COLD
WARTO
DETENTE,
1962-79
271
Introduction
271
The Cuban Missile Crisis
273
Towards the world of MAD
275
France, Germany and the origins of European
détente
277
Trouble in the Soviet bloc
279
Triangular diplomacy and the 'two
détentes'
281
Détente
in trouble: Watergate, Angola and the Horn of Africa
283
The death of
détente:
SALT II and Afghanistan
287
Conclusion
290
Recommended reading
292
12.
THE VIETNAM WARS,
1945-79
295
Introduction
295
The origins of the conflict and the first Indochina War
296
Divided Vietnam and American nation-building
298
The Americanization of the Vietnam War
301
'Peace' and unification
306
Indochina in turmoil after
1975
309
Conclusion
311
Recommended readine
312
13.
NEUTRALISM, DEVELOPMENT AND THE RISE OF THE
THIRD WORLD,
1945-2007 315
Introduction
315
Neutrality in Cold War Europe
316
India and the path to Bandung
318
The birth of the Non-Aligned Movement
322
Development and the Group of
77 325
The fragmentation of the Third World
328
Conclusion
332
Recommended reading
333
14.
THE 'DEVELOPMENTAL STATES': JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA
AND TAIWAN,
1945 - 2007 335
Introduction
335
The American occupation of Japan
336
The
' 1955
system' and the revision of the Security Treaty
338
High-speed growth and its discontents
342
Japan as an economic superpower
346
CONTENTS
The troubled nineties
349
Japan's neighbours: South Korea and Taiwan
350
Conclusion
353
Recommended reading
354
15.
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND NORTH KOREA:
IDEOLOGY AND NATIONALISM,
1949-2007 357
Introduction
357
The rise and decline of the
Sino-Soviet
alliance
358
Revolutionary China and the Third World
363
The opening to America and the death of Mao
366
Deng and the 'Four Modernizations'
368
Tiananmen and after: causes and consequences
370
North Korea: the last Stalinist state
372
Conclusion
375
Recommended reading
376
16.
THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA,
1945-2007 379
Introduction
379
Hemispheric unity, internal dislocation
380
Guatemala
383
The Cuban Revolution
385
The Alliance for Progress
387
Revolutionaries and reformers from Chile to Nicaragua
391
Into the new millennium: an age of uncertainty
396
Conclusion
400
Recommended reading
401
17.
AFRICA: DECOLONIZATION AND INDEPENDENCE,
1945-2007 404
Introduction
404
The end of empire
405
The rise and fall of pan-Africanism
409
Imperialism and 'white rule' in southern Africa
411
The Cold War in Africa
413
The end of apartheid in South Africa
416
The African state and the legacy of empire
418
Poverty, resources and the troubled road to democracy
423
Conclusion
426
Recommended reading
427
18.
THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT,
1949-2007 429
Introduction
429
The
1956
Suez-Sinai campaign
430
The
1967
June War
433
XI
CONTENTS
The
1973
October War
434
The
1982
Lebanon War
438
The Palestinian armed struggle from the
1948
naqba to the
1987
intifada
440
The peace process, its collapse and attempts to revive it
442
The
2006
Lebanon War
448
Conclusion
452
Recommended reading
453
19.
THE RISE OF POLITICAL ISLAM,
1928 - 2000 456
Introduction
456
The rise of political Islam
457
Islamist movements: aims, strategies and political philosophies
459
The
1979
Islamic revolution in Iran
463
Fundamentalist Islam: Afghanistan and the Taliban
466
Islamic resistance: Hizb'allah, Hamas and
Läskar
Jihad
468
Transnational
Islamism,
international jihadism, global
Islamism
and the al-Qaeda phenomenon
472
Conclusion
475
Recommended reading
476
20.
THE END OF THE COLD WAR AND THE 'NEW WORLD ORDER',
1980-2000 480
Introduction
480
The superpowers and the Third World
481
The disintegration of the Soviet bloc
483
The First Gulf War
489
The unipolar moment: America at the apex
491
The 'new world order' and ethnic conflict
494
Conclusion
498
Recommended reading
499
21.
THE RISE OF A NEW EUROPE: THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN
INTEGRATION,
1945 - 2007 501
Introduction
501
The idea of Europe
502
From the Second World War to the Treaty of Rome
503
Widening and deepening in the shadow of the Cold War
505
An ever-wider Europe and the conundrums of success
508
The EEC/EU as inspiration: integration in Asia and the
Americas
514
Conclusion
518
Recommended reading
520
XII
CONTENTS
22.
THE WAR ON
TERROR IN
A GLOBALIZED
WORLD 522
Introduction
522
From
9/11
to 'Iraqi Freedom'
523
Backfire: Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terror
527
The challenge of nuclear proliferation
530
Americas conundrums: hyperpower humbled
532
AI-Qaeda
since
9/11 534
The 'war on terror' in South-East Asia
535
Conclusion: where to next?
538
Recommended reading
540
Glossary
542
Bibliography
561
Index
601
xiii
Illustrations
Maps
1.1
Europe
in
1914 7
2.1
Territorial changes in Europe
after the
First World
War
35
3.1
Japanese
expansion
in East Asia until
1939 60
4.1
The British Empire in
1922 83
4.2
The Middle East in
1922 91
4.3
Africain
1922 101
5.1
UN partition plan for Palestine,
1947 120
5.2
Post-war Israel,
1948 127
6.1
US interventions in the Caribbean and Central America,
1898-1941 146
7.1
German expansion,
1935—39 167
8.1
German expansion in Europe,
1939-40 189
8.2
Japanese expansion in Asia,
1940^42 198
9.1
The Cold War in Europe,
1955 234
10.1
Decolonization in South and South-East Asia
251
10.2
The Korean War
264
12.1
The Vietnam War in the
1
960s
302
16.1
The United States and Latin America since
1945 382
17.1
Decolonization in Africa
406
18.1
The Six-Day War
435
18.2
The West Bank in
2000 445
19.1
The Muslim world
461
20.1
The states of the former Soviet Union after
1991 487
20.2
The former Yugoslavia
496
21.1
EEC/EU enlargements
511
Figure
1.1
Defence expenditure of the European Great Powers,
1900-13
xiv
ILLUSTRATIONS
Tables
1.1
Total populations
of the Great Powers,
1890-1913 8
5.1
British high commissioners for Palestine,
1920—48 114
9.1
Aid allocated under the European Recovery Program
227
11.1
Détente
and the Soviet-American nuclear balance: strategic
launcher parity
287
11.2
Nuclear warheads (ICBMs and SLBMs) parity
287
14.1
Japanese economic growth,
1955-65 342
Boxes
Debates and controversies
Debating the origins of the First World War
29
Debating peacemaking in
1919 55
Debating the intelligence failure at Pearl Harbor
77
Debating the origins of modem Western imperialism
84
Debating the
1948
war
128
Debating the origins of American interventionism
147
Debating ideology and foreign policy in the
1
930s
184
Debating why the Allies won the Second World War
212
Debating the origins of the Cold War
229
Debating PRC-American relations and the 'lost chance' thesis
259
Debating the Cuban Missile Crisis
274
Debating the rise and collapse of
détente
291
Debating Americas Vietnam War
308
Defining the Third World
319
Debating Japans 'economic miracle'
344
Debating the
Sino-Soviet
split
362
Debating the impact of the Cold War in the Western Hemisphere
399
Debating the African state
421
Debating the Cold War in the Middle East
450
Debating the state strategies and responses to the Islamist challenge
462
Debating the end of the Cold War
486
Where scholars disagree: realists, liberal intergovernmentalists,
functionalists and federalists
519
Documents
2.1
Extracts from the Treaty of Versailles
42
5.1
Letter from McMahon to Sharif Hussein,
24
October
1915 112
5.2
The Balfour Declaration,
2
November
1917 113
7.1
The Anglo-German declaration,
30
September
1938 181
xv
ILLUSTRATIONS
15.1 Maos
conversation
with
Soviet
ambassador, Pavel Yudin,
31
March
1956 360
16.1
George Kennan on the United States and Latin America,
March
1950 383
22.1
The Bush Doctrine
-
Excerpts from the National Security Strategy
of the United States,
22
September
2002 526
Plates
1.1
Kaiser
Wilhelm
II and his chief military, naval and political
advisers,
1910 20
2.1
Versailles Peace Conference attendees, France,
1919 40
3.1
Washington Conference, USA, November
1921 63
4.1 Mahatma Gandhi,
January
1922 97
5.1
Declaration of the State of Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel,
14
May
1948 126
6.1
US marines are led by a guide to look for bandits, Haiti,
1919 141
7.1
Munich Conference, Germany,
30
September
1938 180
8.1
The 'Big Three' at the Teheran Conference, December
1943 204
9.1
The Berlin Airlift, Germany,
1948 219
10.1
Refugees in China, May
1946 257
11.1
Nixon and Brezhnev in Moscow,
31
May
1972 281
12.1
The
Tet
Offensive, January
1968 305
13.1
Group of
77
Conference, Dohar, Qatar,
15
June
2005 331
14.1
Neon lights in the Ginza district of Tokyo, Japan,
1998 348
15.1
Mao and Nixon, Beijing, China, February
1972 367
16.1
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara,
17
December
1964 390
17.1
Demonstrators in Cape Town, South Africa, October
1976 417
18.1 Moshe Dayan,
Yitzhak Rabin and
Uzi
Narkiss enter the Old
City of Jerusalem, June
1967 436
19.1
Indonesian police, Surabaya, Indonesia, May
2000 472
20.1
Reagan and Gorbachev, Geneva summit, Switzerland,
November
1985 484
21.1
Kohl and Mitterrand, Paris, September
1992 509
22.1
New York,
11
September
2001 524
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