John W. Young and John Kent
Part I The Origins and Development of the Cold War 1945-53
1. Tensions in the Grand Alliance and the Growing Confrontation, 1945-47
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 The Cold War Intensifies: Containment Superseded,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 Cold War: Crises and Change, 1953-63
5. Soviet-American 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 Co-Existence 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 Détente Era, 1972-80
12. An Era of
Negotiations, 1972-73
13. Stagflation and the Trials of Détente, 1973-76
14. Détente in Decline, 1977-79
15. The Return to Confrontation, 1979-80
Part V From Confrontation to Communist Collapse, 1981-89
16. The 'Second' Cold War, 1981-85
17. Middle East Conflicts in
the 1980s
18. Instability in Latin America
19. The Decline of the Cold War, 1985-89
Part VI The Post-Cold War World, 1990-2001
20. Europe and the Former Soviet Union
21. US Predominance and the Search for a Post-Cold War Order
22. Stability and Instability in the Less
Developed World
Part VII The Age of Instability and Conflict: Terror, Economic Chaos and Political Change 2001-11
23. The 'War on Terror' and the War in Afghanistan
24. The War in Iraq
25. Economic Problems in the West and the Economic Rise of China in the East
Part
VIII The Age of Uncertainty: Chaos and Confusion in a Globalized World, 2011-18
26. Conflict and Chaos in the Middle East
27. Threats to the existing Global Order: Instability in the West
28. Threats to the Existing Global Order: Challenges from the East
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Professor John W. Young is an expert on post-1945 history of British and US foreign policy (including British relations with European Union), based at the University of Nottingham, UK. Dr John Kent has taught at the Universities of Aberdeen and Strathclyde and is currently an Emeritus
Professor at the London School of Economics.
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