International relations since 1945 : a global history

PART I Origins and Early Development of the Cold War 1945-53 1. Tensions in the Grand Alliance 1945-46 2. Two Worlds: East and West 1945-48 3. Empire, Cold War and Decolonisation 1945-53 4. The Cold War Intensifies: Containment Superseded 1948-53 PART II The Cold War: Crisis and Change 1953-62 5. Soviet-America Relations: Avoiding Hot Water and the Search for Stability 6. Maintaining the Spheres of Influence 7. Fighting the Cold War: The Offensive Strategies 8. Collapsing Empires: The Cold War Battle for Hearts and Minds 1953-63 PART III The cold War of Peaceful CoExistence and the Rise of Multipolarity 1963-71 9. The Eastern and Western Blocs in the 1960s 10. The Vietnam War 11. Other Regional Conflicts PART IV The Detente Era 1971-80 12. An Era of Negotiations, 1971-73 13. Stagflation and the Trials of Detente 14. Detente in Decline, 1976-79 15. The Return to Confrontation, 1979-80 PART V From Confrontation to Communist Collapse, 1981-89 16. Middle East Conflicts in the 1980s 17. Instability in Latin America 18. The Decline of the Cold War, 1985-89 PART VI The Post-Cold War World Since 1990 20. Europe and the Former Soviet Union 21. US predominance and the Post-Cold War Disorder 22. Stability and Instability in the Developing World Conclusion