A Concise History of the World Since 1945: States and Peoples
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| 505 | 8 | |a Intro -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TIMELINE -- INTRODUCTION: DYNAMIC TENSIONS IN RECENT GLOBAL HISTORY -- Part I: From bipolar to multipolar world -- 1: THE COLD WAR IN GLOBAL CONTEXT, 1945-1991 -- TRIUMPH AND DISQUIET: THE HUMAN PROSPECT IN 1945 -- The fragile West -- Democracy on the defensive -- An optimistic view -- A pessimistic view -- The eclipse of Europe -- Intellectual disquiet -- EARLY SUPERPOWER TENSIONS -- A second front -- Eastern Europe -- Deepening Western suspicions -- The communist perspective -- The German dilemma -- The Marshall Plan -- The Truman Doctrine -- Berlin airlift -- NATO -- The nuclear arms race -- EXPANDING THE CIRCLE OF CONFLICT -- Communism in China -- Korean domino -- Red Scare -- Southeast Asia -- Washington intervenes -- An undeclared war -- Sino-Soviet split -- THE KHRUSHCHEV ERA, 1955-1964 -- Crackdown in Hungary -- The Berlin Wall -- To the brink: Cuba -- FROM DETENTE TO DENOUEMENT -- Seeking a way out -- Limiting weapons -- Soviet weaknesses -- Detente in shambles -- Gorbachev and Reagan -- POWER AND PRINCIPLE -- 2: THE END OF EMPIRE AND THE PROBLEM OF NEOCOLONIALISM -- DECOLONIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- Neocolonialism -- Empire as anachronism -- World War II as catalyst -- THE SOUTH ASIAN PRECEDENT -- Colonial legacies -- India and the world wars -- The tragedy of partition -- Enduring conflict -- Nonalignment -- Strategic reversals -- Democracy and development -- AFRICA'S HOPE AND MISFORTUNE -- Nationalist leaders -- The roots of instability -- Early prospects -- African commonalities? -- Ugandan xenophobia -- Kenya, Rhodesia, and white settlement -- French Algeria -- Apartheid in South Africa -- From independence to chaos -- Forced retreat: Portugal -- Ethnicity and the nation-state -- ANTICOLONIALISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- Israel -- Egypt and the Arab leadership -- SOUTHEAST ASIA. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Indonesia -- THE OVERLOOKED EMPIRE: RUSSIA -- ASSESSING THE COLONIAL LEGACY -- Postcolonial relationships -- Nationalism and modernization since 1945 -- 3: AN ELUSIVE NEW WORLD ORDER, 1991-2020 -- INTEGRATION AND FRAGMENTATION IN WIDER EUROPE -- Collapse of the Iron Curtain -- Soviet demise, Russian reprise -- European integration -- Southeastern Europe and the NATO consensus -- Straining the European idea -- America's angry populist -- THE RESURGENCE OF CHINA -- The great anomaly -- The cultural revolution -- The return of Deng Xiaoping -- Tiananmen and beyond -- A multiethnic state -- Return to great power status -- North Korea: The last Stalinist state -- AMBIGUITY IN LATIN AMERICA -- Lingering challenges and the global market -- TERRORISM AND TROUBLED DEMOCRACY -- Terror states? -- A problematic ally -- Anti-authoritarianism and the Arab World -- Israel, Palestine, and Nationhood -- Democracy on the defensive -- Part II: Globalization and its discontents -- 4: WHEN BORDERS DON'T MATTER: DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBAL CULTURE -- CLASSICAL LIBERALISM IN CRISIS -- THE KEYNESIAN CONSENSUS -- Bretton Woods -- European integration -- The ascent of Japan -- Consumer culture -- NORTH AND SOUTH, RICH AND POOR -- Postcolonial economies -- Development economics -- India's example -- Africa's dilemma -- Latin America -- A debtors' globe -- NEOLIBERAL ECONOMICS -- Oil shocks and stagnation -- Thatcher and Reagan -- Soviet blues -- Markets triumphant? -- GLOBALIZATION AND DISQUIET -- Multinational corporations -- A better world? -- A disconcerting conclusion -- 5: WHEN BORDERS DO MATTER: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND IDENTITY -- STATES AND REFUGEES -- Cold War policy and refugees -- The first Gulf War -- Jews and Muslims -- South Asian emergencies -- Africa's refugee predicament -- Europe's recent refugees -- PROVISIONAL GUESTS -- Guest workers and remittances | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Labour recruitment in West Germany -- Britain and France -- Guest workers in the oil kingdoms -- East Asian migrants -- GLOBALIZATION AND IDENTITY -- The Chinese exception -- Mobile Latin Americans -- Identity in the US -- A common border -- GLOBAL EQUITY AND MIGRATION -- Prospects -- Part III: Body and spirit -- 6: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- POPULATION AND HEALING -- A new old age -- Prolonging human life -- Assault on disease -- Technology, medicine, and the quality of life -- The business of medicine -- The politics of medicine -- From eugenics to genetics -- ENERGY AND POWER -- The envied model for success -- Oil shocks? -- Emerging energy consumers -- The promise and perils of nuclear energy -- GOODS, SERVICES, AND CULTURE -- Electronic communications -- Shrinking the planet: Computers, Internet devices, and social media -- Shrinking the planet: Air travel -- DEBATE OVER THE ENVIRONMENT -- The unforeseen costs of progress -- Environmental awareness -- UNCERTAIN FUTURE -- 7: RELIGION, RIGHTS, AND CIVIL SOCIETY -- CHRISTIANITY BECOMES A GLOBAL FAITH -- The ecumenical movement -- Watershed at the Vatican -- A wider Christian community -- Roman Catholicism and the state in Latin America -- Social activism -- Conservative restoration -- The African imprint -- African-American liberation theology -- Confessional politics in Ireland -- Poland's Catholic identity -- Catholicism at a crossroads -- Alternative religions in the West -- CHALLENGES IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD -- Islamism -- Islamist revolution in Iran -- Egypt -- Islam in the contemporary West -- INDIAN AND ISRAELI CONFESSIONAL POLITICS -- The rise of Hindu nationalism -- Sikh separatism -- Israel and Judaism -- EAST ASIAN TRANSITIONS -- China's crucible -- Tradition and innovation in Japan -- RIGHTS, GENDER, AND RELIGION -- Gender equity -- Women and the faith traditions | |
| 505 | 8 | |a ANCIENT FAITH AND MODERN VALUES -- CONCLUSION: HOPE AND MISGIVING IN THE NEW CENTURY -- STATES BEFORE PEOPLES? -- A MEANINGFUL LIFE -- FURTHER READING -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- Cold War theory -- US-Soviet relations -- Europe and Asia -- CHAPTER 2 -- Decolonization -- South and East Asia -- Middle East -- Africa -- CHAPTER 3 -- Recent Europe and America -- South and East Asia -- Latin America -- Recent Islam -- CHAPTER 4 -- Economic globalization -- Cities, consumers, and energy -- CHAPTER 5 -- General surveys -- Refugees -- CHAPTER 6 -- Medicine and technology -- Energy and environment -- CHAPTER 7 -- General surveys -- Islam -- Church and state -- Christianity -- CONCLUSION -- Index | |
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| contents | Intro -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TIMELINE -- INTRODUCTION: DYNAMIC TENSIONS IN RECENT GLOBAL HISTORY -- Part I: From bipolar to multipolar world -- 1: THE COLD WAR IN GLOBAL CONTEXT, 1945-1991 -- TRIUMPH AND DISQUIET: THE HUMAN PROSPECT IN 1945 -- The fragile West -- Democracy on the defensive -- An optimistic view -- A pessimistic view -- The eclipse of Europe -- Intellectual disquiet -- EARLY SUPERPOWER TENSIONS -- A second front -- Eastern Europe -- Deepening Western suspicions -- The communist perspective -- The German dilemma -- The Marshall Plan -- The Truman Doctrine -- Berlin airlift -- NATO -- The nuclear arms race -- EXPANDING THE CIRCLE OF CONFLICT -- Communism in China -- Korean domino -- Red Scare -- Southeast Asia -- Washington intervenes -- An undeclared war -- Sino-Soviet split -- THE KHRUSHCHEV ERA, 1955-1964 -- Crackdown in Hungary -- The Berlin Wall -- To the brink: Cuba -- FROM DETENTE TO DENOUEMENT -- Seeking a way out -- Limiting weapons -- Soviet weaknesses -- Detente in shambles -- Gorbachev and Reagan -- POWER AND PRINCIPLE -- 2: THE END OF EMPIRE AND THE PROBLEM OF NEOCOLONIALISM -- DECOLONIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- Neocolonialism -- Empire as anachronism -- World War II as catalyst -- THE SOUTH ASIAN PRECEDENT -- Colonial legacies -- India and the world wars -- The tragedy of partition -- Enduring conflict -- Nonalignment -- Strategic reversals -- Democracy and development -- AFRICA'S HOPE AND MISFORTUNE -- Nationalist leaders -- The roots of instability -- Early prospects -- African commonalities? -- Ugandan xenophobia -- Kenya, Rhodesia, and white settlement -- French Algeria -- Apartheid in South Africa -- From independence to chaos -- Forced retreat: Portugal -- Ethnicity and the nation-state -- ANTICOLONIALISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- Israel -- Egypt and the Arab leadership -- SOUTHEAST ASIA. Indonesia -- THE OVERLOOKED EMPIRE: RUSSIA -- ASSESSING THE COLONIAL LEGACY -- Postcolonial relationships -- Nationalism and modernization since 1945 -- 3: AN ELUSIVE NEW WORLD ORDER, 1991-2020 -- INTEGRATION AND FRAGMENTATION IN WIDER EUROPE -- Collapse of the Iron Curtain -- Soviet demise, Russian reprise -- European integration -- Southeastern Europe and the NATO consensus -- Straining the European idea -- America's angry populist -- THE RESURGENCE OF CHINA -- The great anomaly -- The cultural revolution -- The return of Deng Xiaoping -- Tiananmen and beyond -- A multiethnic state -- Return to great power status -- North Korea: The last Stalinist state -- AMBIGUITY IN LATIN AMERICA -- Lingering challenges and the global market -- TERRORISM AND TROUBLED DEMOCRACY -- Terror states? -- A problematic ally -- Anti-authoritarianism and the Arab World -- Israel, Palestine, and Nationhood -- Democracy on the defensive -- Part II: Globalization and its discontents -- 4: WHEN BORDERS DON'T MATTER: DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBAL CULTURE -- CLASSICAL LIBERALISM IN CRISIS -- THE KEYNESIAN CONSENSUS -- Bretton Woods -- European integration -- The ascent of Japan -- Consumer culture -- NORTH AND SOUTH, RICH AND POOR -- Postcolonial economies -- Development economics -- India's example -- Africa's dilemma -- Latin America -- A debtors' globe -- NEOLIBERAL ECONOMICS -- Oil shocks and stagnation -- Thatcher and Reagan -- Soviet blues -- Markets triumphant? -- GLOBALIZATION AND DISQUIET -- Multinational corporations -- A better world? -- A disconcerting conclusion -- 5: WHEN BORDERS DO MATTER: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND IDENTITY -- STATES AND REFUGEES -- Cold War policy and refugees -- The first Gulf War -- Jews and Muslims -- South Asian emergencies -- Africa's refugee predicament -- Europe's recent refugees -- PROVISIONAL GUESTS -- Guest workers and remittances Labour recruitment in West Germany -- Britain and France -- Guest workers in the oil kingdoms -- East Asian migrants -- GLOBALIZATION AND IDENTITY -- The Chinese exception -- Mobile Latin Americans -- Identity in the US -- A common border -- GLOBAL EQUITY AND MIGRATION -- Prospects -- Part III: Body and spirit -- 6: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- POPULATION AND HEALING -- A new old age -- Prolonging human life -- Assault on disease -- Technology, medicine, and the quality of life -- The business of medicine -- The politics of medicine -- From eugenics to genetics -- ENERGY AND POWER -- The envied model for success -- Oil shocks? -- Emerging energy consumers -- The promise and perils of nuclear energy -- GOODS, SERVICES, AND CULTURE -- Electronic communications -- Shrinking the planet: Computers, Internet devices, and social media -- Shrinking the planet: Air travel -- DEBATE OVER THE ENVIRONMENT -- The unforeseen costs of progress -- Environmental awareness -- UNCERTAIN FUTURE -- 7: RELIGION, RIGHTS, AND CIVIL SOCIETY -- CHRISTIANITY BECOMES A GLOBAL FAITH -- The ecumenical movement -- Watershed at the Vatican -- A wider Christian community -- Roman Catholicism and the state in Latin America -- Social activism -- Conservative restoration -- The African imprint -- African-American liberation theology -- Confessional politics in Ireland -- Poland's Catholic identity -- Catholicism at a crossroads -- Alternative religions in the West -- CHALLENGES IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD -- Islamism -- Islamist revolution in Iran -- Egypt -- Islam in the contemporary West -- INDIAN AND ISRAELI CONFESSIONAL POLITICS -- The rise of Hindu nationalism -- Sikh separatism -- Israel and Judaism -- EAST ASIAN TRANSITIONS -- China's crucible -- Tradition and innovation in Japan -- RIGHTS, GENDER, AND RELIGION -- Gender equity -- Women and the faith traditions ANCIENT FAITH AND MODERN VALUES -- CONCLUSION: HOPE AND MISGIVING IN THE NEW CENTURY -- STATES BEFORE PEOPLES? -- A MEANINGFUL LIFE -- FURTHER READING -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- Cold War theory -- US-Soviet relations -- Europe and Asia -- CHAPTER 2 -- Decolonization -- South and East Asia -- Middle East -- Africa -- CHAPTER 3 -- Recent Europe and America -- South and East Asia -- Latin America -- Recent Islam -- CHAPTER 4 -- Economic globalization -- Cities, consumers, and energy -- CHAPTER 5 -- General surveys -- Refugees -- CHAPTER 6 -- Medicine and technology -- Energy and environment -- CHAPTER 7 -- General surveys -- Islam -- Church and state -- Christianity -- CONCLUSION -- Index |
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Verfasser aut A Concise History of the World Since 1945 States and Peoples 2nd ed London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2020 ©2020 1 Online-Ressource (329 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Intro -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TIMELINE -- INTRODUCTION: DYNAMIC TENSIONS IN RECENT GLOBAL HISTORY -- Part I: From bipolar to multipolar world -- 1: THE COLD WAR IN GLOBAL CONTEXT, 1945-1991 -- TRIUMPH AND DISQUIET: THE HUMAN PROSPECT IN 1945 -- The fragile West -- Democracy on the defensive -- An optimistic view -- A pessimistic view -- The eclipse of Europe -- Intellectual disquiet -- EARLY SUPERPOWER TENSIONS -- A second front -- Eastern Europe -- Deepening Western suspicions -- The communist perspective -- The German dilemma -- The Marshall Plan -- The Truman Doctrine -- Berlin airlift -- NATO -- The nuclear arms race -- EXPANDING THE CIRCLE OF CONFLICT -- Communism in China -- Korean domino -- Red Scare -- Southeast Asia -- Washington intervenes -- An undeclared war -- Sino-Soviet split -- THE KHRUSHCHEV ERA, 1955-1964 -- Crackdown in Hungary -- The Berlin Wall -- To the brink: Cuba -- FROM DETENTE TO DENOUEMENT -- Seeking a way out -- Limiting weapons -- Soviet weaknesses -- Detente in shambles -- Gorbachev and Reagan -- POWER AND PRINCIPLE -- 2: THE END OF EMPIRE AND THE PROBLEM OF NEOCOLONIALISM -- DECOLONIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- Neocolonialism -- Empire as anachronism -- World War II as catalyst -- THE SOUTH ASIAN PRECEDENT -- Colonial legacies -- India and the world wars -- The tragedy of partition -- Enduring conflict -- Nonalignment -- Strategic reversals -- Democracy and development -- AFRICA'S HOPE AND MISFORTUNE -- Nationalist leaders -- The roots of instability -- Early prospects -- African commonalities? -- Ugandan xenophobia -- Kenya, Rhodesia, and white settlement -- French Algeria -- Apartheid in South Africa -- From independence to chaos -- Forced retreat: Portugal -- Ethnicity and the nation-state -- ANTICOLONIALISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- Israel -- Egypt and the Arab leadership -- SOUTHEAST ASIA. Indonesia -- THE OVERLOOKED EMPIRE: RUSSIA -- ASSESSING THE COLONIAL LEGACY -- Postcolonial relationships -- Nationalism and modernization since 1945 -- 3: AN ELUSIVE NEW WORLD ORDER, 1991-2020 -- INTEGRATION AND FRAGMENTATION IN WIDER EUROPE -- Collapse of the Iron Curtain -- Soviet demise, Russian reprise -- European integration -- Southeastern Europe and the NATO consensus -- Straining the European idea -- America's angry populist -- THE RESURGENCE OF CHINA -- The great anomaly -- The cultural revolution -- The return of Deng Xiaoping -- Tiananmen and beyond -- A multiethnic state -- Return to great power status -- North Korea: The last Stalinist state -- AMBIGUITY IN LATIN AMERICA -- Lingering challenges and the global market -- TERRORISM AND TROUBLED DEMOCRACY -- Terror states? -- A problematic ally -- Anti-authoritarianism and the Arab World -- Israel, Palestine, and Nationhood -- Democracy on the defensive -- Part II: Globalization and its discontents -- 4: WHEN BORDERS DON'T MATTER: DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBAL CULTURE -- CLASSICAL LIBERALISM IN CRISIS -- THE KEYNESIAN CONSENSUS -- Bretton Woods -- European integration -- The ascent of Japan -- Consumer culture -- NORTH AND SOUTH, RICH AND POOR -- Postcolonial economies -- Development economics -- India's example -- Africa's dilemma -- Latin America -- A debtors' globe -- NEOLIBERAL ECONOMICS -- Oil shocks and stagnation -- Thatcher and Reagan -- Soviet blues -- Markets triumphant? -- GLOBALIZATION AND DISQUIET -- Multinational corporations -- A better world? -- A disconcerting conclusion -- 5: WHEN BORDERS DO MATTER: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND IDENTITY -- STATES AND REFUGEES -- Cold War policy and refugees -- The first Gulf War -- Jews and Muslims -- South Asian emergencies -- Africa's refugee predicament -- Europe's recent refugees -- PROVISIONAL GUESTS -- Guest workers and remittances Labour recruitment in West Germany -- Britain and France -- Guest workers in the oil kingdoms -- East Asian migrants -- GLOBALIZATION AND IDENTITY -- The Chinese exception -- Mobile Latin Americans -- Identity in the US -- A common border -- GLOBAL EQUITY AND MIGRATION -- Prospects -- Part III: Body and spirit -- 6: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- POPULATION AND HEALING -- A new old age -- Prolonging human life -- Assault on disease -- Technology, medicine, and the quality of life -- The business of medicine -- The politics of medicine -- From eugenics to genetics -- ENERGY AND POWER -- The envied model for success -- Oil shocks? -- Emerging energy consumers -- The promise and perils of nuclear energy -- GOODS, SERVICES, AND CULTURE -- Electronic communications -- Shrinking the planet: Computers, Internet devices, and social media -- Shrinking the planet: Air travel -- DEBATE OVER THE ENVIRONMENT -- The unforeseen costs of progress -- Environmental awareness -- UNCERTAIN FUTURE -- 7: RELIGION, RIGHTS, AND CIVIL SOCIETY -- CHRISTIANITY BECOMES A GLOBAL FAITH -- The ecumenical movement -- Watershed at the Vatican -- A wider Christian community -- Roman Catholicism and the state in Latin America -- Social activism -- Conservative restoration -- The African imprint -- African-American liberation theology -- Confessional politics in Ireland -- Poland's Catholic identity -- Catholicism at a crossroads -- Alternative religions in the West -- CHALLENGES IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD -- Islamism -- Islamist revolution in Iran -- Egypt -- Islam in the contemporary West -- INDIAN AND ISRAELI CONFESSIONAL POLITICS -- The rise of Hindu nationalism -- Sikh separatism -- Israel and Judaism -- EAST ASIAN TRANSITIONS -- China's crucible -- Tradition and innovation in Japan -- RIGHTS, GENDER, AND RELIGION -- Gender equity -- Women and the faith traditions ANCIENT FAITH AND MODERN VALUES -- CONCLUSION: HOPE AND MISGIVING IN THE NEW CENTURY -- STATES BEFORE PEOPLES? -- A MEANINGFUL LIFE -- FURTHER READING -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- Cold War theory -- US-Soviet relations -- Europe and Asia -- CHAPTER 2 -- Decolonization -- South and East Asia -- Middle East -- Africa -- CHAPTER 3 -- Recent Europe and America -- South and East Asia -- Latin America -- Recent Islam -- CHAPTER 4 -- Economic globalization -- Cities, consumers, and energy -- CHAPTER 5 -- General surveys -- Refugees -- CHAPTER 6 -- Medicine and technology -- Energy and environment -- CHAPTER 7 -- General surveys -- Islam -- Church and state -- Christianity -- CONCLUSION -- Index Geschichte 1945-2005 gnd rswk-swf Sozialgeschichte 1945-2020 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte gnd rswk-swf History, Modern Globalisierung (DE-588)4557997-0 gnd rswk-swf Neokolonialismus (DE-588)4115362-5 gnd rswk-swf Ost-West-Konflikt (DE-588)4075770-5 gnd rswk-swf Migration (DE-588)4120730-0 gnd rswk-swf Weltgeschichte (DE-588)4079158-0 gnd rswk-swf Electronic books Migration (DE-588)4120730-0 s Globalisierung (DE-588)4557997-0 s Sozialgeschichte 1945-2020 z DE-604 Ost-West-Konflikt (DE-588)4075770-5 s Geschichte z Neokolonialismus (DE-588)4115362-5 s Weltgeschichte (DE-588)4079158-0 s Geschichte 1945-2005 z Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Spellman, W. M. A Concise History of the World Since 1945 London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2020 9781352010206 |
| spellingShingle | Spellman, W. M. A Concise History of the World Since 1945 States and Peoples Intro -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TIMELINE -- INTRODUCTION: DYNAMIC TENSIONS IN RECENT GLOBAL HISTORY -- Part I: From bipolar to multipolar world -- 1: THE COLD WAR IN GLOBAL CONTEXT, 1945-1991 -- TRIUMPH AND DISQUIET: THE HUMAN PROSPECT IN 1945 -- The fragile West -- Democracy on the defensive -- An optimistic view -- A pessimistic view -- The eclipse of Europe -- Intellectual disquiet -- EARLY SUPERPOWER TENSIONS -- A second front -- Eastern Europe -- Deepening Western suspicions -- The communist perspective -- The German dilemma -- The Marshall Plan -- The Truman Doctrine -- Berlin airlift -- NATO -- The nuclear arms race -- EXPANDING THE CIRCLE OF CONFLICT -- Communism in China -- Korean domino -- Red Scare -- Southeast Asia -- Washington intervenes -- An undeclared war -- Sino-Soviet split -- THE KHRUSHCHEV ERA, 1955-1964 -- Crackdown in Hungary -- The Berlin Wall -- To the brink: Cuba -- FROM DETENTE TO DENOUEMENT -- Seeking a way out -- Limiting weapons -- Soviet weaknesses -- Detente in shambles -- Gorbachev and Reagan -- POWER AND PRINCIPLE -- 2: THE END OF EMPIRE AND THE PROBLEM OF NEOCOLONIALISM -- DECOLONIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- Neocolonialism -- Empire as anachronism -- World War II as catalyst -- THE SOUTH ASIAN PRECEDENT -- Colonial legacies -- India and the world wars -- The tragedy of partition -- Enduring conflict -- Nonalignment -- Strategic reversals -- Democracy and development -- AFRICA'S HOPE AND MISFORTUNE -- Nationalist leaders -- The roots of instability -- Early prospects -- African commonalities? -- Ugandan xenophobia -- Kenya, Rhodesia, and white settlement -- French Algeria -- Apartheid in South Africa -- From independence to chaos -- Forced retreat: Portugal -- Ethnicity and the nation-state -- ANTICOLONIALISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- Israel -- Egypt and the Arab leadership -- SOUTHEAST ASIA. Indonesia -- THE OVERLOOKED EMPIRE: RUSSIA -- ASSESSING THE COLONIAL LEGACY -- Postcolonial relationships -- Nationalism and modernization since 1945 -- 3: AN ELUSIVE NEW WORLD ORDER, 1991-2020 -- INTEGRATION AND FRAGMENTATION IN WIDER EUROPE -- Collapse of the Iron Curtain -- Soviet demise, Russian reprise -- European integration -- Southeastern Europe and the NATO consensus -- Straining the European idea -- America's angry populist -- THE RESURGENCE OF CHINA -- The great anomaly -- The cultural revolution -- The return of Deng Xiaoping -- Tiananmen and beyond -- A multiethnic state -- Return to great power status -- North Korea: The last Stalinist state -- AMBIGUITY IN LATIN AMERICA -- Lingering challenges and the global market -- TERRORISM AND TROUBLED DEMOCRACY -- Terror states? -- A problematic ally -- Anti-authoritarianism and the Arab World -- Israel, Palestine, and Nationhood -- Democracy on the defensive -- Part II: Globalization and its discontents -- 4: WHEN BORDERS DON'T MATTER: DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBAL CULTURE -- CLASSICAL LIBERALISM IN CRISIS -- THE KEYNESIAN CONSENSUS -- Bretton Woods -- European integration -- The ascent of Japan -- Consumer culture -- NORTH AND SOUTH, RICH AND POOR -- Postcolonial economies -- Development economics -- India's example -- Africa's dilemma -- Latin America -- A debtors' globe -- NEOLIBERAL ECONOMICS -- Oil shocks and stagnation -- Thatcher and Reagan -- Soviet blues -- Markets triumphant? -- GLOBALIZATION AND DISQUIET -- Multinational corporations -- A better world? -- A disconcerting conclusion -- 5: WHEN BORDERS DO MATTER: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND IDENTITY -- STATES AND REFUGEES -- Cold War policy and refugees -- The first Gulf War -- Jews and Muslims -- South Asian emergencies -- Africa's refugee predicament -- Europe's recent refugees -- PROVISIONAL GUESTS -- Guest workers and remittances Labour recruitment in West Germany -- Britain and France -- Guest workers in the oil kingdoms -- East Asian migrants -- GLOBALIZATION AND IDENTITY -- The Chinese exception -- Mobile Latin Americans -- Identity in the US -- A common border -- GLOBAL EQUITY AND MIGRATION -- Prospects -- Part III: Body and spirit -- 6: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- POPULATION AND HEALING -- A new old age -- Prolonging human life -- Assault on disease -- Technology, medicine, and the quality of life -- The business of medicine -- The politics of medicine -- From eugenics to genetics -- ENERGY AND POWER -- The envied model for success -- Oil shocks? -- Emerging energy consumers -- The promise and perils of nuclear energy -- GOODS, SERVICES, AND CULTURE -- Electronic communications -- Shrinking the planet: Computers, Internet devices, and social media -- Shrinking the planet: Air travel -- DEBATE OVER THE ENVIRONMENT -- The unforeseen costs of progress -- Environmental awareness -- UNCERTAIN FUTURE -- 7: RELIGION, RIGHTS, AND CIVIL SOCIETY -- CHRISTIANITY BECOMES A GLOBAL FAITH -- The ecumenical movement -- Watershed at the Vatican -- A wider Christian community -- Roman Catholicism and the state in Latin America -- Social activism -- Conservative restoration -- The African imprint -- African-American liberation theology -- Confessional politics in Ireland -- Poland's Catholic identity -- Catholicism at a crossroads -- Alternative religions in the West -- CHALLENGES IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD -- Islamism -- Islamist revolution in Iran -- Egypt -- Islam in the contemporary West -- INDIAN AND ISRAELI CONFESSIONAL POLITICS -- The rise of Hindu nationalism -- Sikh separatism -- Israel and Judaism -- EAST ASIAN TRANSITIONS -- China's crucible -- Tradition and innovation in Japan -- RIGHTS, GENDER, AND RELIGION -- Gender equity -- Women and the faith traditions ANCIENT FAITH AND MODERN VALUES -- CONCLUSION: HOPE AND MISGIVING IN THE NEW CENTURY -- STATES BEFORE PEOPLES? -- A MEANINGFUL LIFE -- FURTHER READING -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- Cold War theory -- US-Soviet relations -- Europe and Asia -- CHAPTER 2 -- Decolonization -- South and East Asia -- Middle East -- Africa -- CHAPTER 3 -- Recent Europe and America -- South and East Asia -- Latin America -- Recent Islam -- CHAPTER 4 -- Economic globalization -- Cities, consumers, and energy -- CHAPTER 5 -- General surveys -- Refugees -- CHAPTER 6 -- Medicine and technology -- Energy and environment -- CHAPTER 7 -- General surveys -- Islam -- Church and state -- Christianity -- CONCLUSION -- Index History, Modern Globalisierung (DE-588)4557997-0 gnd Neokolonialismus (DE-588)4115362-5 gnd Ost-West-Konflikt (DE-588)4075770-5 gnd Migration (DE-588)4120730-0 gnd Weltgeschichte (DE-588)4079158-0 gnd |
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