About this title: The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the end helped topple one superpower and still seriously challenge the other. Ranging from China to Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Date Published: 2007-03-31
ISBN-13:9780521703147ISBN:052170314X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780521703147ISBN:052170314X
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 8.98 by 1.18 inches. (498 pages) prize-winning study of the global conflict waged during the cold war and its legacy today. odd arne westad offers a compelling and panoramic new history of the global conflict waged by the united states and soviet union during the cold war and the part it played in fuelling the ideologies, movements and states which increasingly dominate international affairs today. odd arne westad offers a compelling and panoramic new history of the global ... read more
Binding: orig. cloth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 2005
Description: Textual maps & illustrations. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, xiv, 484 pp. Contents: Introduction; 1. The empire of liberty: American ideology and foreign interventions; 2. The empire of justice: Soviet ideology and foreign interventions; 3. The revolutionaries: anti-colonial politics and transformations; 4. Creating the Third World: the United States confronts revolution; 5. The Cuban and Vietnamese challenges; 6. The crisis of decolonization: Southern Africa; 7. The prospects of ... read more
Description: New. Odd Arne Westad offers a compelling and panoramic new history of the global conflict waged by the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War and the part it played in fuelling the ideologies, movements and states which increasingly dominate international affairs today. read more
"apparently one of the best diplomatic/political international histories out there. the empirical chapters in the middle are great for someone (like myself) who knows little about iran, afghanistan, vietnam, all the third world countries that experienced "hot" wars and uprisings during the cold one. the connections made between american/soviet ideologies and colonial legacies are interesting."
"Among political scientists, it is a truism universally acknowledged that the Cold War was a unique stage in the international system, both for its unusual bipolar structure and the globally destructive potential of nuclear military technology. Historians, on the other hand, see it as their professional duty to qualify if not eliminate entirely such comfortable ideas. One such historian is Odd Arne Westad, who builds his new history of the Cold War on the unusual premise that it constituted not a break with the international structures of the past but represented an important continuity with them, particularly the European imperialism of the 19th century. In fact the central argument of Westad's book, The Global Cold War, is the Cold War can best be understood as the continuation of colonization by ideological means.
Integrating a wide range of new primary evidence and scholarship from third world archives, The Global Cold War explores the troubling history of American and Soviet interaction through their interventions in the third world. Embracing a parallel structure for his US-Soviet narrative, Westad writes not only from the perspective of the great powers, but from the perspective of the third-world countries involved. From Indonesia to Vietnam, Cuba to Nicaragua, Ethiopia to Afghanistan, he examines the profoundly problematic consequences of intervention: economic, political, social, and ideological."
"The title says it all and actually does what it says. It really is good. Comparing the Soviet sources from the run up to Afghanistan to American sources from the run-up to Iraq provides a mildly eerie experience."
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