(The) World since 1945 : a history of international relations / by Wayne C. McWilliams and Harry Piotrowski

Includes index.

INTRODUCTION -- THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR: The end of World War II and the dawn of the nuclear age -- The Cold War institutionalized -- The Cold War in Asia: a change of venue -- Confrontation and coexistence -- NATIONALISM AND THE END OF COLONIALISM: Decolonization in Asia -- Decolonization in Africa -- The middle-east: the Arab-Israeli conflict -- THE SHIFTING SANDS OF GLOBAL POWER: The communist world after Stalin -- The war in Indochina -- Detente and the end of bipolarity -- THE THIRD WORLD: Problems of economic development in the Third World -- Africa -- Latin America -- The people's republic of China and Taiwan -- The Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia -- TRANSITION TO A NEW ERA: Japan, Korea and East Asian economic development -- The globalization of the economy -- The Soviet Union: from perestroika to retreat from empire -- The nuclear arms race -- Political Islam and the middle east -- September 11 and its consequences -- Epilogue: the end of the Postwar Age