International Relations Since 1945 - Kent, John

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Résumé :

• Introduction: Understanding the Cold War
• Part I
• The Origins and Development of the Cold War 1945-53
• 1: Tensions in the Grand Alliance and Growing Confrontation, 1945-7
• 2: Two Worlds East and West, 1945-8
• 3: Empire, Cold War, and Decolonization, 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• 4: The Cold War Intensifies: Containment Superseded, 1948-53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 War 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 D?tente Era, 1972-80
• 12: An Era of Negotiations, 1972-3
• 13: 'Stagflation' and the Trials of D?tente, 1973-6
• 14: D?tente in Decline, 1977-9
• 15: The Return to Confrontation, 1979-80
• Part V From Confrontation to Communist Collapse, 1981-9
• 16: The 'Second' Cold War, 1981-5
• 17: Middle East Conflicts in the 1980s
• 18: Instability in Latin America
• 19: The Decline of the Cold War, 1985-9
• Part VI The Post-Cold War World, 1990-2000
• 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