Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
1. GREAT POWER RIVALRY AND THE WORLD WAR, 1900–17
2. THE SEARCH FOR EUROPEAN STABILITY, 1917–29
3. JAPAN, CHINA AND THE ORIGINS OF THE PACIFIC WAR, 1900–41
4. THE EUROPEAN COLONIAL EMPIRES, 1900–45
5. ‘GOOD NEIGHBORS’? THE UNITED STATES AND THE AMERICAS, 1900–45
6. THE PATH TO EUROPEAN WAR, 1930–39
7. THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1940–45
8. THE ‘FIRST’ COLD WAR IN EUROPE, 1945–61
9. ASIA IN TURMOIL: NATIONALISM, REVOLUTION AND THE RISE OF THE COLD WAR, 1945–53
10. FROM COLD WAR TO DÉTENTE, 1962–79
11. THE VIETNAM WARS, 1945–79
12. NEUTRALISM, DEVELOPMENT AND THE RISE OF THE THIRD WORLD, 1945–2023
13. THE ‘DEVELOPMENTAL STATES’: JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND TAIWAN, 1945–2023
14. THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND NORTH KOREA: IDEOLOGY AND NATIONALISM, 1949–2023
15. THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA, 1945–2023
16. AFRICA: DECOLONIZATION AND INDEPENDENCE, 1945–2023
17. THE ARAB–ISRAELI CONFLICT, 1948–2023
18. THE RISE OF POLITICAL ISLAM, 1928–2023
19. THE END OF THE COLD WAR AND THE ‘NEW WORLD ORDER’, 1980–2000
20. THE RISE OF A NEW EUROPE: THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, 1945–2022
21. THE RISE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
22. US DECLINE IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD?