Record Nr.

UNINA9910467468603321

Autore

Westad Odd Arne

Titolo

The global Cold War : third world interventions and the making of our times / / Odd Arne Westad [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2005

ISBN


1-139-63731-2
1-139-88325-9
1-139-64161-1
1-139-64923-X
1-139-63537-9
0-511-81799-1
1-139-63877-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 484 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

909.82

Soggetti

Cold War

World politics - 1945-1989

International relations

Soviet Union Relations Developing countries

Developing countries Relations Soviet Union

United States Relations Developing countries

Developing countries Relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The empire of liberty: American ideology and foreign interventions -- The empire of justice: Soviet ideology and foreign interventions -- The revolutionaries: anti-colonial politics and transformations -- Creating the Third World: the United States confronts revolution -- The Cuban and Vietnamese challenges -- The crisis of decolonization: Southern Africa -- The prospects of socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn -- The Islamist defiance; 9. The 1980s: the Reagan offensive -- The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War -- Conclusion: Revolutions, interventions and Great Power collapse.

Sommario/riassunto

The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the end helped topple one superpower and still seriously challenge the other. Ranging from China to Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua, it provides a truly global perspective on the Cold War. And by exploring both the development of interventionist ideologies and the revolutionary movements that confronted interventions, the book links the past with the present in ways that no other major work on the Cold War era has succeeded in doing.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001282999707536

Autore

Mazzanti, Stefano