International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond

Americas. Wilsonian visions defeated. From boom to bust. From gunboat diplomacy to the 'Good Neighbor' policy. Pan-Americanism and the approach of war. The Second World War and the Monroe Doctrine. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 7. THE PATH TO EUROPEAN WAR, 1930-39. Introduction. The dual crisis. The collapse of the Weimar Republic. Revolution and expansion. Diplomacy and deterrence. Isolation and co-existence. From Munich to European war. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 8. THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1940-45. Introduction. From European war to World War. The Axis at war. The Grand Alliance at war. The collapse of the Grand Alliance. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 9. THE 'FIRST' COLD WAR IN EUROPE, 1945-61. Introduction. The German question. From takeovers to conformity: the USSR and Eastern Europe. The United States, containment and Western Europe. On every front. Stability and revolts. A wasting asset? Nuclear weapons. Culture and propaganda. The Berlin Wall. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 10. ASIA IN TURMOIL: NATIONALISM, REVOLUTION AND THE RISE OF THE COLD WAR, 1945-53. Introduction. The end of the Raj. Nationalism and independence in South-East Asia. The Chinese Civil War. China, Japan and the Cold War in Asia. The Korean War. Asia and the consequences of the Korean War. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 11. FROM COLD WAR TO DÉTENTE, 1962-79. Introduction. The Cuban Missile Crisis. Towards the world of MAD. France, Germany and the origins of European détente. Trouble in the Soviet bloc. Triangular diplomacy and the 'two détentes'. Détente in trouble: Watergate, Angola and the Horn of Africa. The death of détente: SALT II and Afghanistan. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 12. THE VIETNAM WARS, 1945-79. Introduction. The origins of the conflict and the first Indochina War. Divided Vietnam and American nation-building. The Americanization of the Vietnam War. 'Peace' and unification. Indochina in turmoil after 1975. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 13. NEUTRALISM, DEVELOPMENT AND THE RISE OF THE THIRD WORLD, 1945-2014. Introduction. Neutrality in Cold War Europe. India and the path to Bandung. The birth of the Non-Aligned Movement. Development and the Group of 77. The fragmentation of the Third World. The environment, sustainable development and climate change. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 14. THE 'DEVELOPMENTAL STATES': JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND TAIWAN, 1945-2014. Introduction. The American occupation of Japan. The '1955 system' and the revision of the Security Treaty. High-speed growth and its discontents. Japan as an economic superpower. Post-'bubble' Japan. South Korea and Taiwan. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 15. THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND NORTH KOREA: IDEOLOGY AND NATIONALISM, 1949-2014. Introduction. The rise and decline of the Sino-Soviet alliance. Revolutionary China and the Third World. The opening to America and the death of Mao. Deng and the 'Four Modernizations'. Tiananmen and after: the rise to global prominence. North Korea: the last Stalinist state. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 16. THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA, 1945-2014. Introduction. Hemispheric unity, internal dislocation. Guatemala. The Cuban Revolution. The Alliance for Progress. Revolutionaries and reformers from Chile to Nicaragua. Into the new millennium: an age of uncertainty. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 17. AFRICA: DECOLONIZATION AND INDEPENDENCE, 1945-2014. Introduction. The end of empire. The rise and fall of pan-Africanism. Imperialism and 'white rule' in southern Africa. The Cold War in Africa. The end of apartheid in South Africa. The African state and the legacy of empire. Poverty, resources and the troubled road to democracy. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 18. THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, 1949-2014. Introduction. The 1956 Suez-Sinai campaign. The 1967 June War. The 1973 October War. The 1982 Lebanon War. The Palestinian armed struggle from the 1948 naqba to the 1987 intifada. The peace process and its collapse. The 2006 Gaza offensive and Lebanon war. Gaza wars, 2006-2014. Renewal of negotiations, the Arab spring, and American peace initiatives. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 19. THE RISE OF POLITICAL ISLAM, 1928-2014. Introduction. The rise of political Islam. Islamist movements: aims, strategies and political philosophies. The 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. Fundamentalist Islam: Afghanistan and the Taliban. Islamic resistance: Hizb'allah, Hamas and Laskar Jihad. Transnational and global jihadism. The Syrian jihad. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 20. THE END OF THE COLD WAR AND THE 'NEW WORLD ORDER', 1980-2000. Introduction. The superpowers and the Third World. The disintegration of the Soviet bloc. The First Gulf War. The unipolar moment: America at the apex. The 'new world order' and ethnic conflict. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 21. THE RISE OF A NEW EUROPE: THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, 1945-2014. Introduction. The idea of Europe. From the Second World War to the Treaty of Rome. Widening and deepening in the shadow of the Cold War. An ever-wider Europe and the conundrums of success. The Eurozone crisis. The EEC/EU as inspiration: integration in Asia and the Americas. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 22. THE RISE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY. Introduction. Human rights before the First World War. The League of Nations, population politics and minority rights. The United Nations and the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Human rights in the age of the Cold War. The 'right to protect': humanitarian intervention and the punishment of war crimes. Whose human rights? Paradoxes and problems. Conclusion. Recommended reading. 23. US DECLINE IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD? Introduction. From 9/11 to 'Iraqi Freedom'. Backfire: Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terror. The 'war on terror' in South-East Asia. The challenge of nuclear proliferation. America's conundrums: hyperpower humbled. Conclusion. Recommended reading. CONCLUSION: WHERE TO NEXT? Glossary. Index.